On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Adam Williamson <
awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 22:09 +0300, Pasha R wrote:
>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Adam Williamson <
awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:47 +0600, Angel wrote:
>> >
>> >> If you click the network icon of the panel then Network Settings, that
>> >> īs the different thing (dumbed down to absolute worthlessness).
>> >
>> > yeah - it's so worthless you can only connect to a typical wired or
>> > wireless network configuration, y'know, like probably 80-90% of all
>> > network connections ever. I do wish people would be less absurdly
>> > extremist about everything. 'It doesn't yet cover my particular use
>> > case' is not the same thing as 'worthless'.
>>
>> Well, unfortunately, my internet provider (and all other internet
>> providers in my country) require me to use PPPoE to connect to
>> internet. And, for some unknown reason (probably something like "I
>> don't need it, so no one else does, too" logic) current "network
>> setting" application does not allow me to configure such connection.
>> So, yes, I can't configure my internet connection with it, which
>> means, it is worthless.
>
> For your case, yes. 'Absolute worthlessness' implies it is of no use to
> anyone, which is not the case.
>
> The reason some functions are not yet implemented in the GNOME 3 NM
> interface is simply that the developers did not have time to finish them
> off yet. No conspiracy theory needed.
Yes, it is useless for anything beyond most basic configuration, which