On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:10:07AM -0500, James Carlson wrote: > Kacheong Poon writes: > > > - Generally, I've cooled to the ide of automatic transitions w/o user > > > input, but at least being able to pop up a dialog when networks come > > > and go will be very nice. > > > > > > Some people have a very strong desire not to ask anything. > > I guess I'm "some."
The Windows GUI model would be: popo up a little ballon over the systray informing the user that a network is available; the user can click in it if they want to do something (and the ballon tells them as much). This is like a dialog, but one which doesn't take keyboard focus. > At least by default, I think we have to get to the state where > questions are not necessary. As an option, we could offer a "please > pester me about the least little thing" feature. But I don't think > we've met the goal of "approachability" if that feature is the > default. But do you want your laptop switching profiles as networks come and go? How will you know which of two radically different networks (e.g., home vs. SWAN) you're connected to when link comes up on a wired interface? Since we might enable/disable services and switch ipfilter configs according to which profile is selected one might want to strongly authenticate the network, but, how? DHCP won't do it. Now, if it is possible to configure profiles such that at a given moment a single profile can be selected which unambiguously that we know the user would want, then, sure, switch to it. But this is the kind of thing that the user should have to explicit request. Nico -- _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
