I wouldn't mind a different icon for "I hear wifi networks". I.e., when
I'm not connected but NM hears wifi, it could show a different icon than
when I'm disconnected and it DOESN'T hear wifi. THAT would be useful
to me.
-derek
Quoting Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Captive portals for Wifi also make this really, really hard. I'm not
> necessarily opposed to it, but I feel like it's something that shouldn't
> be in NM itself, but in a plugin of some sort so people can use it if
> they want to.
>
> The problem with this sort of check is that it makes various people
> really angry. It makes admins angry, because it's essentially (to them)
> useless traffic, and what happens when you have 100 machines with NM on
> them with this enabled? It makes some users angry because NM is
> generating useless (to them) traffic because they already know. It's
> also a really hard problem to determine if you actually _are_ on the
> internet due to captive portals, firewalls, NATs, etc. So in the end,
> it shouldn't be on by default.
>
> Dan
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