On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:58 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:47 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
My experience mirrors Tim's so I second his opinion about the Network config utilities in Fedora being too cluttered and too confusing for users.
system-config-network is indeed overly confusing (even to me, and I'm no newbie in this case) and is not a good design although it *was* a good idea. I am *still* having troubles with it which make me think it is broken, although if it's not then it's definitely horribly designed.
That interface will be NetworkManager eventually.
Does that mean that system-config-network will go away? Yay!!!
I mean, no offense meant to the guys/gals who worked hard to code it. But the UI and the choices made are *NOT* the best they could have been. The whole "copy" versus "new" difference between aliases and logical devices, plus the interaction of profiles and devices and what you can/can't do just does not work well.
Cheers,