Re: ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.12

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:39:21PM +0200, Richard Hult wrote:
> CJ van den Berg skrev:
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:20:29AM +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > 
> >> - Show avatars in chat views (Richard, Martyn).
> > 
> > Where does this show up? I only see avatars in the contact list.

Ah, now I get it. Thanks.

> They are only shown if you are using a "non-classic" chat theme (non-irc
> style).
> 
> >> - Use the GNOME throbber to show the user when we are connecting (Martyn).
> > 
> > Ditto. I don't see any throbber. Do I need to enable something?
>
> Do you have a gnome icon theme installed?

Doh! I totally missed the gnome foot. I thought a "throbber" was a type of
progress bar. (The one used for tasks that have no specific ETA)

> >> - Fixed #313177, Use GNOME Network Manager to know about connection
> >> state and connect/disconnect accordingly (Martyn).
> > 
> > This is great. In theory at least. On my machine I don't use Network Manager
> > to manage all my connections (only wireless) so gossip always sees me as
> > disconnected when I'm hardwired to the net. I guess this is a general
> > Network Manager usage issue though and probably not gossip's problem.
> 
> Why not use it for all your interfaces? It's kind of against the whole
> point of network manager if it doesn't get to manage all of them, in my
> opinion.

I don't mainly because I couldn't get it to do a few things that I wanted it
to; eg. run scripts when a specific network connection comes online. I guess
I'll have to investigate Network Manager a little closer.

> We might have to add a way to bypass network manager, I suppose

Or perhaps check the status of the default route in addition to Network
Manager's status and logical or the two or something.

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