System Settings=>Network rant

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:58 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:47 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> > My experience mirrors Tim's so I second his opinion about the Network config
> > utilities in Fedora being too cluttered and too confusing for users.
> 

system-config-network is indeed overly confusing (even to me, and I'm no
newbie in this case) and is not a good design although it *was* a good
idea. I am *still* having troubles with it which make me think it is
broken, although if it's not then it's definitely horribly designed.

> That interface will be NetworkManager eventually.
> 

Does that mean that system-config-network will go away? Yay!!!

I mean, no offense meant to the guys/gals who worked hard to code it.
But the UI and the choices made are *NOT* the best they could have been.
The whole "copy" versus "new" difference between aliases and logical
devices, plus the interaction of profiles and devices and what you
can/can't do just does not work well.

Cheers,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/attachments/20041028/37c04a9b/attachment.sig>