Ticket #820 (new enhancement)
Network preferences
| Reported by: | axeld | Owned by: | stippi |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Network & Internet | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Has a Patch: | yes | Platform: | All |
Description (last modified by axeld) (diff)
We need a preferences application that is able to configure the whole stack.
This includes (but is not limited to):
- profiles
- interfaces, DHCP
- hostname, DNS
- login/password - if we don't have a separate application for that
- dial up, PPPoE
- WiFi networks
- services (for inetd, ie. ftpd, telnetd, sshd, ...)
Attachments
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preflet.patch
(95.8 KB) -
added by Barrett 3 years ago.
- Patch for my work on the networks preferences
Change History
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by wkornewald
- Cc wkornewald added
Maybe some of this functionality (mostly interface configuration) can even be moved into a central "Network" Deskbar replicant? For WiFi and profiles this is needed, anyway. Probably we can at least share code between the replicant and the preflet.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by axeld
- Owner set to stippi
- Platform set to All
- Cc wkornewald removed
- Milestone changed from R1 Network Stack to R1/alpha
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by stippi
- Milestone changed from R1/alpha to R1
I think the current state of the Network preflet (it is functional) should not hold up R1/alpha. :-)
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by wkornewald
May I refer to my Networks Preferences design? I hope that it's still useful for the next GSoC, at least as a source of inspiration. Guys, I'm watching you...sometimes. :)
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by nielx
Hi Waldemar. Good to see you're still watching! I don't know what you did, but somehow you manage to excite me about network preferences.
The wheels are starting to spin...
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by wkornewald
I re-read my proposal a few days ago and one thing certainly needs to be changed:
Under "Base" in the longest paragraph (4th from below) I wrote
Values that can't be customized (or all values if you don't customize the preferences) are displayed as simple text instead of grayed-out control.
IMHO, the part in the parenthesis should go away because the user should be able to know in advance what can be customized for that location. IOW, simple text for things that can't be customized and grayed-out controls for location-customizable prefs.
Since I don't have write access to the wiki I can't change the proposal. Also, I don't want to interfere with your work, so I'll better leave it up to you. Note, you can always contact me if you want me to clarify something.
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by RandomInsano
I request that as DHCPd offers DNS servers to Haiku, Haiku maintains an active list of said servers, pings each when the system gets an internet connection, and requests for host names are issued to whichever servers have the lowest ping times. The DNS servers would remain even if going to a new connection or rebooting.
This fixes poorly chosen DNS servers that create an impression that someone's internet connection being slower than it truely is (surfing from one domain to another is only as fast as the requests you receive).
Changed 3 years ago by Barrett
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attachment
preflet.patch
added
Patch for my work on the networks preferences
comment:10 Changed 2 years ago by mmadia
Seeing as this patch has aged, could you test it on a new revision? It'd be preferred to create the patch from $(HAIKU_TOP) as mentioned in SubmittingPatches
comment:12 Changed 7 months ago by Disreali
IIRC, Kallisti5 was working on such a pref in the trunk. There was even a GCI(?) task for a mockup.
Kallist5, what is the status of your Network pref?
comment:13 Changed 5 weeks ago by diver
I made several mockups some time ago. If anyone is interested you can find them in this thread:
http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Quick-network-preference-application-update
