Le mercredi 02 novembre 2011 à 10:17 +0000, Gabriel Rossetti a écrit : > Because it's not the same thing, disconnecting it (and the wifi, etc) > means "I no longer want to use the connection", switching it off means > "I want to deactivate the broadband card, wifi card, etc", it's like > the hardware switch on laptops but controlled via software. If you > take the wifi example, I may no longer want to be connected to a > network but still want to use my wifi card (with kismet for example). When I disconnect from WiFi, I expect the computer to be smart enough to turn off the (now useless) card automatically, to save power. People wouldn't like getting a shorter battery life because of a device that isn't currently used.
The fact that you can want to disconnect and use software to do wireless sniffing is really a hacker problem that the default design shouldn't aim at. Hackers are clued enough to find another way to disconnect the WiFi without turning the card off (using nm-cli for example). > Using the current way I would have to switch it off and on again (and > it would probably try to re-connect automatically by doing that). Why would that be a problem? Does it take a long time to start? The fact that it would try to reconnect automatically is OK, since it's what you'd want when you turned the connection up. > Remember when you used a modem (broadband is emulating a modem), when > you no longer wanted to be connected you disconnected from your > provider, you didn't deactivate the modem/pull it out from your > computer. I didn't pull it out, but I wouldn't have bothered if the computer was able to turn it off. If it doesn't hurt powering it down, why keep it alive? Regards _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
