replacement for Network-Manager needed

[Hadmut Danisch]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Hi,

network-manager is still highly annoying due to its long list of shortcomings. I've reported several problems to ubuntu's launchpad and the upstream developer (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582214 ).

Unfortunately, the developer seems to be rather ignorant regarding network requirements and too red-hat-oriented (he works for Red Hat and thus is bound to their configuration system, ignoring the ubuntu/debian way to do it). Furthermore, he seems to be a desktop developer and not really experienced with networking, and to deny everything beyond his own experience. Maybe they are sort of jealous, because debian/ubunt has a better and more powerful network configuration environment.

I'd therefore propose to abandon Network-Manager and to write a real graphical frontend for /etc/network/interfaces, ifup, ifdown etc., that smoothly fits into the known network environment.

regards
Hadmut

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is not really a bug, but rather an idea to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at https://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!