On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:29 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 20:03 +0000, yelo_3 wrote: > > it is blocking because people using a hotkey to switch of/off > > wireless, will see a different status in the applet: > > - the hotkey toggles wireless using the dbus method setWirelessEnabled > > - the applet does not update itself, so the user who disables > > wireless, will see in the applet that wireless is enabled, and the > > exact list of wireless network that were active before he had hit the > > hotkey > > That's not the right way to do it, especially as some "hotkeys" act > directly on the hardware. The correct way to do it is: > - have HAL do get/set on the hardware (either using custom APIs for each > models, like already implemented for Dells, or the generic kernel rfkill > API) > - Make NetworkManager handle the get/set from the hardware
Apparently HAL 0.5.9 has limited rfkill support, and that's what we should be hooking into with NM now. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
