http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628138
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628138#c4
Terence Silk changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Terence Silk 2010-08-06 10:57:26 UTC ---
Ludwig,
No offence meant (I value your work), but for the sake of the "frustrated few"
(I include myself in that category) how do you explain the following parallel
Novell/openSUSE decisions?
1) Your decision to drop support for non-dialup devices in smpppd.
2) The inclusion of the option in open SUSE 11.3 (final version) Yast2/Network
Settings/Overview tab/Edit/General tab, "Enable Device Control for Non-root
User Via Qinternet" (it must have been discussed/specified during project
meetings because Kintenet was specified in 11.2 wheras Qinternet was specified
in 11.3).
As a result of this Novell/openSUSE agenda divergance, it is inevitable that a
lot of cumulative user time will be wasted on this problem (see hyperlink
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/network-internet/443568-qin...)
until openSUSE 11.3 final version is superseded or you see fit to restore
non-dialup devices to smpppd in the form of a patch.
Whilst I have a degree of sympathy with your argument, I suggest that it would
be more reasonable to drop non-dialup device support from smpppd in the NEXT
version of openSUSE and remove the Yast2/Network Settings/Overview
tab/Edit/General tab, "Enable Device Control for Non-root User Via Qinternet"
option at the same time.
Obviously most people caught out so far will probably have migrated to Network
Manager already. Speaking for myself, I miss the handy network traffic
indicator on the bottom panel.
Respectfully yours,
Terry.
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