Re: [Slightly-OT] On usability: managing usb devices & network profiles in a ion3 environment

On 2009-03-03, Vladimir Skuratovich <[email protected]> wrote:
> With network profiles you actually have a lot of options, starting from
> ifupdown scripts in Debian, where you can specify a profile manually,
> through 'divine', a nice small program that is able to send ARP requests
> to specified hosts to check if they are on the network and then
> configure the interface, to 'guessnet' - a plug-in for ifupdown, which
> can do the same things as 'divine' and some more.

NetworkManager (and its applet) are one of the few things that actually
didn't totally suck abount Xubuntu. Could even get VPN working with less
effort than Windows. (F-secure + Cisco VPN client -> BSOD, if you install
them in that order. The only one I've had, while Linux has locked up many
times on console switches etc.) Otherwise, can't say much good about 
wireless in Xubuntu: all the radios blasting at full power on startup, 
have to manually turn them off, instead of it remembering the settings.      
And in 8.04 the Fn-key radio button just toggled the first device of
wifi/bluetooth, while in 8.10 it cycles through the combos without  
indicating the current choice: bluetooth led works, but wifi led doesn't.
In Windows I get a nice popup where to turn radios on/off, and it 
remembers the settings.

(As a temporary measure, I've been just running the XFCE panel as 
Ion's stdisp for all the systray shit. But it sucks, because it 
can't align stuff to the right in the non-fullwidth mode.)

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