[Nix-dev] optional packages for KDE

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009 19:14:34 schrieben Sie:
> 2009/12/4 Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org>:
> >> Although it needs improvements because using /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> >> is not ideal and the expression only works if you have iwlan0. Any other
> >> device name will fail.
> >
> > Isn’t wlan0 more common?
> 
> it works for wlan0 only.

Ah, okay. Before, you said that it only works for iwlan0, not wlan0. That’s 
why I asked why you don’t use wlan0.

> > Do you think, a user should have to become root in order to connect to
> > some wireless network when on the road? Consider a shared business laptop
> > where only some member of the technical stuff has admin rights.
> 
> Maybe we did not have this use case until now... we could think of a
> way of handling that. I have not found any working-by-default solution
> and I end up writing my scripts runnable through sudo.

So to come back to my original point: It might be good to support the Network 
Manager Plasma widget. :-) 

Best wishes,
Wolfgang