Re: [devel] Opinions for network interface configuration dialog

Kévin 'ervin' Ottens <[email protected]> Tue, 18 May 2004 18:54:03 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.debian,gmane.comp.kde.devel.debian
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Le mardi 18 Mai 2004 18:39, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit :
> > http://knetworkconf.sourceforge.net/Screenshots/0.6/kaddDeviceDlg4.png
>
> I think this is the best option, bootp is not (never?) used in normal
> desktop machiners. (of course, the manual options should become disabled if
> DHCP is selected)

It's my favorite too...

About the bootp protocol, it's never used by the "mythic average "user so no 
need to have it on the dialog IMHO. But of course it is important to support 
it for thin clients! It is just that it's not needed in GUI.

Regards.
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