Netapplet

[Jerone Young]

Not to be picky or anything, but the NetworkManger applet looks pretty
damn ugly compared to Netapplet :-)


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:24:17 -0400, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 18:11 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:02 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> >
> > > There is an argument for having a menu item "open config info" that
> > > launches system-config-network if you have static IP configuration for a
> > > card, but the fact of static IP is that you aren't supposed to change it
> > > that often.  So if you don't change it that often, why have an entry for
> > > it in the menu?  When we get dialup support, there might be an argument
> > > for having a configure item for those, however.
> >
> > How do you handle the chance that I might regularly use wireless on two
> > networks, with a (different) static IP on each?
> 
> Do you control the networks in question?  If so, it's actually quite
> easy to configure the DHCP server to assign static IP addresses for
> particular MAC addresses.  That way you get all the benefits of DHCP
> (not having to manually configure individual computers with e.g.
> nameservers) with all the benefits of static addressing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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