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Calum Benson <calum.benson at sun.com> changed:
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--- Comment #6 from Calum Benson <calum.benson at sun.com> 2009-11-02 13:27:57
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Okay, let's try and think this through again, then.
Green should mean that every NIC you expect to be connected, is connected. In
NWAM terms, I guess that means that every manually-enabled NCU, and that at
least one enabled NCU in the active priority group (if there is an active
priority group at all), are connected.
If one or more of those NICs are not connected, then it would be misleading to
show green. Therefore we have to show either orange or red.
The question then, is: how important is it to distinguish, via the panel icon,
that you have *some* connectivity (e.g. one cable is plugged in, but one is
unplugged), versus *no* connectivity (e.g. both network cables unplugged, but
nwamd is still running normally)?
Those two states are what the orange and red states currently distinguish. Is
this useful? If so, do we actually need a fourth state for 'nwamd has stopped
running for some reason'? Or do we just not show the icon at all while NWAM
isn't running, because it serves no useful purpose at that point anyway?
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