On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 09:04 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > A wired state icon in the menu bar is not needed if it's available upon > making a physical connection, by default, for all users. For Gnome 3.8, I > regularly encountered no network connection upon successful install, despite > a working wire in the singular ethernet port, because by default "Connect > Automatically" is not enabled for wired connections. > > So if I have to give the system A Captain Obvious Clue, yes I really do need > an otherwise useless wired network state icon in the menubar. But better > would be no wired network icon, but any user by default has access to the > network connection automatically if the wired is in the port. (As a Mac user > the idea that a network isn't connected to automatically by default upon > physical access to both computer and wire is not merely surprising, it is > considered broken.)
Doesn't match my experience at all. We've brought up wired network connections by defaults for several releases, now, though it used to default to off in non-network installs back around F16 or something. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin DOT net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
