Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

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Rui Tiago Cação Matos escribió:
> On Ter, 2007-05-08 at 08:44 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
>> Network related
>>
>> - vpn and dialup integration for network manager - a gui for
>> pairing with bluetooth devices - a gui for setting up bluetooth
>> and usb dialup devices (mobile phones) for connecting to the
>> internet - a gui for setting up 3g networks (umts, ...) for
>> internet access. This could be an extension to
>> system-config-network
>
> I'd rather prefer that system-config-network disappeared (at least
> as a default) and Network Manager becomes the default network
> management system...
>
> Rui
>
I wouldn't be so forward for this (yet). NM is good, but not THAT
good, and neat/system-config-network is a very mature network
configuration system. I've had endless problems with NM, particularly
with wireless devices (but mainly due to "roaming" from network to
network), and have had a bit of issues configuring seemingly trivial
stuff that wouldn't stick. Sure that was some time ago, and things
have improved, I'm sure, but for the time being system-config-network
hasn't let me down, not even once... If the device is not present or
not working at a driver level, it is far easier (IMO) to diagnose that
with neat than NM... Or has my experience been. I'll have to give NM a
try in F7 final (as F7T4 still has some quirks) and hopefully I'll be
able to finally ditch the infamous proprietary wireless tool for my
wireless connection, and have the system use the wireless connection
and activation of profiles and whatnot directly from NM instead (and
no need for root for that either would be nice too).
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