NetworkManager - similar hassle , anyone ?

[Kenn Thyrsted]

fre, 11 04 2008 kl. 09:16 -0430, skrev Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:52 +0200, Kenn Thyrsted wrote:
> > fre, 11 04 2008 kl. 16:39 +0930, skrev Tim:
> > > If your IM client can't connect to its server, it's
> > > probably offline.  Contrariwise, if your mail client can connect to
> > > its
> > > mail server, then that's all it needs to know.  It doesn't matter
> > > whether internet access is there, as well.  It just needs access to
> > > what
> > > it needs to use (e.g. your mailserver could be local).
> > 
> > I am using a local mailserver.
> > All i have to do is to click on the connector-icon at the lower left,
> > thus telling Evolution to connect.
> 
> Which is *really* annoying when you have set the Prefs to "start up
> online" and Evo thinks it's offline because NM is broken.
> 
> poc
> 
And not only that;

AutoUpdater notifies you that the system isn't receiving any updates due
to lack of network connectivity.- Again because NM is broken.

And Pidgin is 100years to start, but even when there is connection, it
still says "waiting for network connection"

It's very annoying.

Kenn