Darren J Moffat wrote: > Kacheong Poon wrote: > >> Dave Miner wrote: >> >>> Refresh buttons suck as a primary interface. I can see them as a >>> backup when the user really wants an immediate view of a current >>> snapshot, but if the information can be collected continuously and >>> non-disruptively, then that's the default I'd want. >> >> >> >> Do people expect that the system to know the list of available >> networks all the time even when the WiFi connection is working >> fine? If true, what is the primary reason for this? > > > Yes. The Wireless menu item on MacOS drops down instantly and > shows me all the currently visible networks. I know it isn't > scanning when I press that item because it happens too quickly. > It must be scanning in the background at some time interval (which > doesn't appear to be configurable via any of the MacOS X Network > GUIs - not surprised really why should it be).
As another data point, this is virtually identical to the behaviour in both Windows XP and on SuSe 10 (under KDE) when one clicks on "View available Wireless Networks". The list maybe slightly outdated, so there's also a "Refresh" button which appears to take 2-3 seconds to scan networks within range and update the results. I have attached a screenshot for the GUI in SuSe 10.0 -Anay -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: kinternet.png Type: image/png Size: 184557 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/nwam-discuss/attachments/20060301/4b7e1c3d/attachment.png>
