Comment 13 for bug 13727

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: [Bug 13727] Re: [network-admin] locations do not get saved correctly

Le lundi 11 septembre 2006 à 12:03 +0000, Mike Gratton a écrit :

> I can't think of any use case for upstream's concern with wanting to
> make some change to the current settings and not wanting to save it.

Let's say you want to use a train station wireless network while
travelling, you probably don't want to modify your profile to connect to
it

> Networks tend to be static things - once you set it up, you want to keep
> it like that and the settings rarely change later on. I'd be interested
> to know when this is likely to happen.

Networks might be static but with a laptop you might from from a network
to an another pretty often

> If the DHCP dialog was cancellable, then having to switch to a profile
> to delete it might not be so bad. As an alternative, have a seperate UI
> for editing the list of profiles, as MacOSX does.

DHCP cancel would be nice right. Another question is to know if people
expect to have their network changed only because they are looking at
the available profiles from the list