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[network manager applet]: reload button: "failed to rescan" #23

Closed star-buck closed 9 years ago

aleixpol commented 9 years ago

Just gave it a try. The error I get is "Scanning not allowed while already scanning". I'd say the problem is that the animation finishes even though the scanning is not ready.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741022 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341122

sebasje commented 9 years ago

Rescan is a feature in NetworkManager that they're only implementing very reluctantly. (Dan Williams says that the user should never trigger a rescan, and that NetworkManager (i.e. its developers, i.e. Dan himself) knows best when to rescan.

The rescan button has long been a no-op to make the user think that the rescan is happy. I've argued that this is complete non-sense, but "lost" that argument against its maintainers and usability guys. Result of this is that the NM developers don't care about this feature and seem reluctant to implement what we need. NM's codebase, being C, is alien to me unfortunately.

I will track the upstream bugs Aleix has listed and see if something can be done on our side as soon as NM itself exposes when it's done scanning.

davidedmundson commented 9 years ago

We could just turn the notification off? We can do that in the config

It does seem like a silly thing to throw a warning about.