On 10/31/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 20:40 -0400, Katelin Ganzer wrote: > > On 10/29/07, Katelin Ganzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was thinking that if the developers are opposed to having the > > > channel displayed inside the progress bar, that maybe they would be > > > okay with displaying a nicely formatted tooltip with a bunch of useful > > > info? > > Like KNetworkManager :) I'm not overly fond of their implementation, > which I feel crams way too much questionably important info into the > tooltip, but putting a few details into a tooltip like you've done here > might be useful.
=) > > However, there's one big caveat with 0.6.x. APs are aggregated based on > SSID, and therefore if you have two APs on channel 1 and channel 6, > you'll only see one AP in the menu. That's mostly by design. Where > 0.6.x gets it wrong is because it aggregates _too_ much (0.7 fixes > this). So the problem here is that you _can't_ really show the mode, > the channel, the band, or the BSSID because you only get that > information from one randomly selected BSSID of the entire SSID. > > I was under the impression that a patch like this would be useful > precisely due to situations where there were a number of APs with the > same SSID but different channels or security, which 0.6.x really won't > let you separate in the applet... :( Oh. What should I do? Should I wait for 0.7 and rewrite my patch for that? I'm not sure what I should do Katie _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
