Network interfaces starting with rndis should be named 'Mobile Interface' rather than 'Networking Interface'

[Muzer]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-network-manager

Phones based on Windows Mobile 6.x have an app called "Internet Connection Sharing" (ICS). This allows you to use the internet on a computer via the phone. There is a Linux driver for this called usb-rndis-lite. There is a version of this that comes with Ubuntu, I believe, although it doesn't have the workaround for WinMo 6.1 (which it doesn't work with), but that's not for this bug report. Basically, this driver causes the phone to appear to the computer as a normal ethernet interface, called rndisX (the X being a number as usual). It functions exactly like an ethernet interface, and software can't tell the difference. Because of this, plasma-widget-network-manager calls it "Networking Interface". It would be very nice if it could instead call it "Mobile Interface", "Mobile Internet Interface", "Mobile Broadband Inteface" or something along those lines. It should NOT change its behaviour, as I said, it works as an ethernet interface and cannot work any other way. It should JUST change the name. With the old app, it used to just use the name of the interface (rndis0 in my case), which was much preferable, but this would be the next best thing.

Ubuntu 9.04

plasma-widget-network-manager version 0.0+svn966653-0ubuntu0.1

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

setting wishlist as per the request in irc channel by "veger"