[sugar] non-intuitive Neighborhood information

[Eben Eliason]

Interesting; thanks for making us aware of it.  However, it would be
much more useful, and less likely to get forgotten, if this was
instead entered as a bug in trac at dev.laptop.org.  Thanks!

- Eben


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> [I don't have wireless at home; am using last week's Joyride.]  Last
> Sunday, I was using my OLPC at a cafe called Bouldin.  Yesterday, I
> visited a friend who lives in a wifi-rich location.  At his house,
> my Neighborhood view showed several circles which, when the cursor
> was hovered over them, listed that connection's ESSID as 'Bouldin'.
> [My friend lives 20 miles from the cafe !]
>
> As near as I can figure out, at the cafe the OLPC Network Manager
> put an entry [Bouldin] at the top of .sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg.
> Then, at my friend's house, whenever the OLPC saw an Access Point
> which was not broadcasting its ESSID, it "picked" a matching entry
> from networks.cfg, and displayed that entry-name for that icon.
>
> Just wanted to let the developers know that it was confusing to see
> obviously-untrue "labels" on some circle icons in Neighborhood.
>
> mikus
>
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