network manager should have weighting

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

Binary package hint: network-manager

When in an environment where multiple networks are visible it would be useful to be able to set an order of precedence. This could enable the user to coerce/bias network manager towards one network. This could be achieved with a gconf key with a weight from 1 to 5. In the user interface for network-manager this can be implemented with stars in a similar way to iTunes/Rhythmbox.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Hi Alan, thanks for your suggestion. You might want to suggest it upstream as well for faster up-take: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

[Motin (motin)]

This bug is very similar to Bug #102555: network-manager-gnome needs a "default network" checkbox

However, it is not a duplicate, as the other report only suggest to have a default network.

I'd prefer weighting.

[Motin (motin)]

However, I would instead suggest a prioritization based on the order the networks are listed in nm-editor. That would make it easy to rank our most preferred networks.

This would be very easy to implement in the nm-editor interface at least.

A variant based on stars sounds even more user-friendly though. If it is not too hard to implement then why not?

[Motin (motin)]

I found an even earlier bug #46123 which addresses the same issue. Marked as duplicate.

You should however suggest your idea about the stars as a strategy of implemenation of this feature.

Cheers