[Feature Request] Add Wireless configuration screen to oem-config if wireless is available

[Jerone Young]

This is a requests to add a wireless network selection screen to oem-config if wireless is avaliable.

This would set the wireless settings for the newly created user that is created during the use of oem-config. If no wireless is available then don't show the wireless selection screen. Also feature a skip button if users do not want to setup wireless.

It has been reported that many users have a hard time figuring out how to connect to their home wireless network. By having a screen in oem-config it would greatly help with usablity. This is a feature that is in newer versions of competing operation systems during the initial setup by users.

[Brent Fox (brent-s-fox)]

Jerone, I'm curious to see if this is something that OEM Engineering could code up.

[Jerone Young (jerone)]

It was in the platform teams blue print for oem-config for Karmic:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/KarmicOEMConfigImprovements

Though it looks like it wasn't done. I think with the new plugin system
it will make it much easier to pull off.

Brent Fox wrote:
> Jerone, I'm curious to see if this is something that OEM Engineering
> could code up.
>
> ** Changed in: dell
> Status: New => Triaged
>
>

[Brent Fox (brent-s-fox)]

Assigning to Mike Terry based on Pat McGowan's input.

[Brent Fox (brent-s-fox)]

Jerone, this is a great test case to try out our new feature request justification document we created in the sprint. Can you put that together? Then we'll push this for Lucid.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Just FYI, I owned the spec with this for Karmic. This got delayed in part because it was so time-consuming.

Part of the problem is that you need to create a new frontend for NetworkManager and embed it. The existing frontends do not lend themselves to being incorporated as widgets (GNOME frontend requires panel for example and isn't written as a library).

So it's doable, just not a small project. I'd gladly do it (sounds fun), but would need time.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Per discussion during our engineering meeting this morning, changing the Status in the Dell task to WontFix, as this project is used to track non-public hardware enablement work.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

10.10 had NetworkManager in the panel during install. (Not done by me)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Same. (10.10 had it)

[Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez)]

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305454