2011/5/30 Pasha R <pashar...@gmail.com> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Adam Williamson <awill...@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 <awill...@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 > >> >> ´s 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 > works without any configuration tools most of the time. And for some > (many) users it is unable to setup internet connection at all. I don't > remember posting any conspiracy theories here, but I don't understand > why Fedora maintainers decide to replace functional software by > software that lacks many essential features or even replace existing > software by "yet to be written" (like gdmsetup, which remains to be > written since F9). May be instead of rushing to release Gnome 3 before > it can provide not only nice-looking, but also functional DE, they > could stop, catch their breath and complete all these missing > features. > -- >
it's strange how, gnome 2 which was incomplete and buggy (we were unable to stop a copy operation in nautilus, remember? ), suddenly appears great, by comparison :)
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