[haiku-development] Re: RFC: Goin' all crazy on NetworkSetupProfiles

  • From: Clemens <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:15:31 +1300

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:46:55 +1300, Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Quoth Clemens <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
...
+1 to remove how it works currently . Please take a look how it works in
KDE. Profiles are replaced by a list of previous connections. Using this
approach, I never thought about profiles at all and it just works as
expected. If you connect to a new wifi spot the connection is stored in a
list and you can choose if you want to connect to it automatically next
time. For example, I just entered the password for a new wifi spot and got
a new connection (profile) for this spot, done!

So "connection" is semantically similar to "profile", except that
it configures only one device?


its not the same but you can say that a connection is a profile for exactly one use-case and nothing else. It could also be a connection to a vpn which is not device specific (and not location specific neither!).

For me a profile is a group of multiple connections. But selecting a group does not help if you like to connect to a special connection within a group.

Cheers,
        Clemens

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