This is a small enhancement request: Assumig that screen real estate on notebooks is limited, I'd like to assign network device as "wlan0, eth0, lo", which means: If wlan0 has an IP address, show its stats, else if eth0 has an IP address, show eth0, else show lo. (lo pointless, just for show) Also, a checkbox to auto-hide if no connection can be found would be very nice.
My python - network manager plugin could suit for this. It also combines the network information with the possibility to choose network. http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~mk0foma/pyNetworkManager/
Using static names for interfaces will work for some people but surely not for all (my wireless is called ra0, for example..). I think some dbus interface could be used, reacting to the same message that NetworkManager uses (.. generates?). For sure this is a useful feature!
(In reply to comment #1) > My python - network manager plugin could suit for this. Is it the one at google code? Btw., I found an "issue" filed at that project regarding an xfce panel plugin: http://code.google.com/p/pynetworkmanager/issues/detail?id=4
The request here is about being able to set a list of interfaces to try, not about hardcoding or detecting wlan0 and eth0 in particular. That would be bug # 3880. But for the record, yes, I agree that any detection needs to be smarter than just using the linux device names.
Mass-reassign all bugs from florian@ to goodies-dev@, thanks for the maintenance work! (and sorry for the bugmail spam..)
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