Review "Network Connections Shortcut" version 1

Review of "Network Connections Shortcut" version 1

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Network Connections Shortcut

Obsolete and final release as of 3.8. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696793 Click to read more. Quickly launch Network Connections from the Network Menu. Having to find and launch Network Connections to edit or remove WiFi connections can be pesky, but this should help ease that frustration. This requires nm-connection-editor be installed first if it is not already, to find out if it is installed just run nm-connection-editor from a terminal As of 3.8 this will no longer be updated as most of this functionality has made it to the gnome-control-center network panel. Unless there are big enough regressions in that panel, there will be no use for this, as discussed with reviewers.

Extension Homepage: https://github.com/l300lvl/Network-Connections-Shortcut-Extension

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gcampax posted a review February 13, 2012

Sure! (But really, nm-connection-editor is deprecated and should be replaced by the network panel in the control-center)

l300lvl posted a review February 13, 2012

gcampax: If you mean gnome-network-panel.desktop from the gnome-control-center which points to 'gnome-control-center network' then it may not be obvious, but, gnome-control-center network does not provide any option to remove/delete connections, only to add or connect to new ones. Perhaps this is a limitation of GS 3.2 and will be fixed or has been fixed in a later version?

l300lvl posted a review February 13, 2012

Here is a use case for reference, where they had the same idea, I just took it a step further basically: http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2012/01/frustrating-gnome-control-center.html

gcampax posted a review February 13, 2012

I know that the network panel is not complete, but it does what the poster wants: configuring wireless before connecting. You need to fire the panel, go the wireless page, and then instead of picking the network from the list (which connects with the default settings), choose "Other..." and enter appropriate settings. (yes, those are only the wireless and wireless security settings, but then, you can still click "Configure..." and tweak further the routing tables or DNS entries). As for deleting, it was implementing around 3.3.5, but ideally there should be no need for that.

l300lvl posted a review February 13, 2012

The only part I disagree on is deleting. If I were to travel out of state and use an airport or other public network for a one time only connection, later on I'd like to be able to open up the list and remove that connection, just for the sake of removing it. If for instance there was another connection with the same name as that one time use connection, could the settings not conflict in some way when set to auto? I also think it would be easier to then remove the connection and select it in gnome-control-center network which would then choose the automatically detected settings for said connection. Is there any tested result when having a network list over say 500-1000 connections on the list? If they are all set to auto, won't it go through the list looking for a visible connection, thus slowing down auto connect and giving another reason to have a delete function?