On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 17:04 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: Hi James,
> We're looking at enabling NetworkManager's connectivity checking in > the next Ubuntu release, and one of the concerns has been privacy > issues of regularly pinging a particular server while users are > online. One option is to include the connectivity check > configuration > in a separate package that the user can uninstall, but that isn't > particularly discoverable. This is what we do on Fedora (NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora package). But I think Lubomir dislikes that because (if I represent his view correctly) we abuse the package management system for configuration. I don't have a strong opinion: it works. > I had a go at implementing an alternative approach, that I attached > to > this bug report: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785117 > > This adds two D-Bus properties: > > ConnectivityCheckAvailable: true if a connectivity URI has been > configured (read-only) > ConnectivityCheckEnabled: true if connectivity checking is enabled > (read/write) > > The second is implemented by setting the connectivity check interval > to 0 in NetworkManager-intern.conf. > > The idea is that a privacy control panel could optionally show an > extra toggle if ConnectivityCheckAvailable is true, and have that > toggle control ConnectivityCheckEnabled. The change will be > persistent, and doesn't require installing/removing files under > /etc/NetworkManager. > > Does this look like a sensible way to implement this feature? If so, > I can move on to add support for it in gnome-control-center. It does. Let's discuss this further on the gnome bugzilla entry. best, Thomas
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