What next?

[Denis Leroy]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:26 -0700, Denis Leroy wrote:
> 
>>Elliot Lee wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Maybe it's time to start the brainstorming for Fedora Core 5 and Fedora
>>>Extras 5 - what major features are you willing to put effort into?
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>I'd like to see better laptop support, in particular some sort of 
>>Profile support as well as better wireless support. Currently to have my 
>>laptop work both at home and at work (in dual mode), i have to hack 
>>rc.sysinit horribly to extend the semantic of the 'netprofile=' kernel 
>>argument so that it also changes the Xorg.conf file, .gconf files, and 
>>so on.... Also, system-config-network is still an incredibly 
>>counter-intuitive and confusing tool.
> 
> 
> With good hardware [1], NetworkManager works very very well these days.
> I expect this to become even better with FC5 (I believe nowadays you
> need to manually add /usr/libexec/nm-applet to your startup programs in
> GNOME... :-/)
> 
> Cheers,
> David

Looks like a very nice wireless tool. But by the time i get to the desktop 
login window, i.e. way before NetworkManager comes into play, it's WAY to late 
to make decisions about profiles: my laptop at work wants eth0 to come up on 
boot, because it wants things such as nfs-mounted home directories, ntpd, 
dual-screen Xorg.conf and so on. For example, booting my laptop at home in 
work profile will result in a boot time of 10 MINUTES for all the stupid 
startup scripts to time out and fail and a pretty unusable system. So this is 
where we're really lacking imho.

-denis