[sugar] [PATCH] Trac #7480: Need to 'reset' the network configurations - short term fix

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Morgan Collett
<morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:31, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Attached is a patch which adds a 'reset network configuration' button to
>> the network tab of the sugar control panel.  Clicking this button simply
>> rotates the config file out of the way, saving it as
>> ~/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg.bak.NNN  (NNN is the number of
>> previously backed-up configs +1).
>>
>> This is just a short-term fix (hack) to resolve the problem of not
>> having any gui-level method to manipulate the nm network configarion.
>> Eben has noted that we would like to enable config panel level
>> manipulation of the networks.cfg stanzas; but this requires a bit more
>> code than this immediate fix.
>
> This needs testing: in some cases NM replaces the config with what was there.
>
> I added a different AP to my home network (in parallel with my
> existing AP). To get the XOs to associate only with the new AP, I
> thought I'd simply delete networks.cfg and then associate to the new
> AP. When I rebooted to make sure it did what I wanted, networks.cfg
> had both the old and the new APs. To end up with only the new AP in
> networks.cfg, I had to first associate to the new AP, then remove the
> old one from networks.cfg - then rebooting after that showed only the
> new one.

Hmm, meaning that the other associations were stored in memory at the
time and later written back to the file?

In other news, do you have a screenshot or a demo of this I can look
at, Erik, to sign off on the UI?

- Eben