* Jean-Christian de Rivaz > Le 22. 07. 15 17:56, Dan Williams a écrit : > > I'm OK with this too, though the original idea was that more > > "intentional" connections would be preferred. eg, WWAN is a lot less > > automatic than WiFi, and often costs you more money, thus if you > > activate a WWAN device you probably want to use it...
My thinking is that if a user manages the connections manually (i.e., autoconnect=false) then he'll most likely ensure that the one he wants to be used at any given time is the only one that's active. I, on the other hand, just want to be on-line whenever I can, so I simply use autoconnect=true for all available connections. Now I just need Aleksander to figure out what's going on in fdo#90973 and everything'll be just peachy. :-) BTW: nm-applet shows the WiFi icon if both WiFi and WWAN is connected simultaneously, so unless the user checks his routing table he might not be aware that WWAN is being used instead of WiFi. So this patch brings NM in line with the preference order nm-applet has been indicating all along. > While WiFi at least imply that the user select an SSID, there exists SIM > cards that are delivered configured to not require a PIN code or a APN > password from the user. This reminded me of something I've been wondering about for a while: What is the reason why NM asks me to select country, provider, APN and so on when connecting to mobile broadband for the first time? It seems kind of user-unfriendly - MM/NM knows my operator's MCC/MNC (can be seen in "mmcli -m 0 -i 0"), which can be used to immediately locate the correct <provider> block in serviceproviders.xml. Assuming there's only one data APN present in that <provider> block, it could simply be used by default without asking anything. Android and SailfishOS does so, FWIW - so there's no technical reason (sans PIN codes or APN username/passwords of course) that WWAN couldn't be connected to in an automatic fashion like wired Ethernet, for example. Another reason why asking the user to pick his provider from a list is user-unfriendly is that quite often his provider is a MVNO whose name won't be found in the list at all, resulting in confusion. Tore _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
