Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 23:03 -0700, Jerry Jaskierny wrote: > > I upgraded to Ubuntu's Hardy Heron beta within the past few > > days. This upgraded included the Network Manager Editor -- > > congratulations on the completion of a very useful tool! > > > > Upon perusal of this new tool, I found 2 fields that confused > > me: the Last Used fields for date and time. I anticipate > > that these fields would be updated automatically (by the Network > > Manager, not the user?) to the last time a person logged on to > > (or logged off) that network. But I see users have the ability > > to set these fields with a button labelled "Calendar" for the > > date and a drop-down type list for times. > > > > I see no documentation for this functionality on the Network > > Manager website[1], nothing in the applications "Help" section, > > nor a mention of it in the Network Manager mailing list archive. > > Is my idea of how this functionality works correct? If so, what > > benefitted utility does the user gain from these? If not, can > > someone explain the functionality of these items for which they > > were designed? > > I think the original writers of the tool were just exposing everything > in GConf :) I think you're right, there really isn't a good use-case > for exposing that control. If there aren't reasonable, strenuous > objections, I'll remove it for the next release.
Thanks, Dan. I didn't see a benefit for it either and just assumed the loose ends hadn't been tied up. Removing that functionality sounds ideal to me. -- Jerry Jaskierny _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
