On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:21 PM, David Edmundson <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Weng Xuetian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Dan Vrátil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Sunday 09 of December 2012 19:01:38 Martin Klapetek wrote: > >> > Hey all, > >> > > >> > me and David brainstormed the presence handling a bit and we came up > >> > with > >> > the idea of disabling the presence controls when you have no network. > >> > This > >> > way we can supress all errors when there is no network and prevent > >> > situations when Tp gets stucked in a connecting state even if you have > >> > no > >> > network. I did small testing patch and here is how the contact list > >> > would > >> > look if you have no network: > >> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6761102/presence_offline.png > >> > > >> > It watches Solid::Networking states and changes whenever Solid signals > >> > network un/availability. > >> > > >> > The presence plasmoid would be changed in a similar way - presence > >> > actions > >> > would be replaced with "No network connection" and some actions > disabled > >> > accordingly ("Join chat room" etc). > >> > > >> > What do you think? > >> > >> Looks awesome! > >> > >> Is there a way to override the "No Network" status in case > NetworkManager > >> goes > >> nuts? > >> > >> Dan > >> > > Yeah I also concern about this. There ARE some case if a network > environment > > only have "lo", but it use some other way to built a proxy with only "lo" > > interface. > > > > For example, > > Android phone, setup a proxy on the phone and redirect by adb (I know > this > > is a VERY rare case... but I have use it several times, don't argue why I > > use this werid setup.. this is only for an example). > > > > So warn user about no network is good, but in some case it's still useful > > make user can force the connection. Even proxy is not supported right > now.. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > > > > In order to do that you would have to disable network manager (right?) > if network manager is not running solid you will be in state unknown > and not disconnected. At which point we won't show this. > > It's worth noting that mission-control-5 won't connect if NM is > running and reports you as offline. So having the controls (this > patch) won't actually help with anything. > _______________________________________________ > Well.. actually I didn't disable nm (it just running but no wireless, no cable is plug-in). Thanks for the info about mission-control-5, and yes.. this case is quite rare.. I also doubt if any one really use network in this way.. So.. if people are using NM connection detect with mission-control, they already trust NM will not... go wild .. no?
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