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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KPPP
From:       Urs Wolfer <uwolfer () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-12-19 20:14:57
Message-ID: 200812192115.05545.uwolfer () kde ! org
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On Friday 19 December 2008 20:46:02 Nick Shaforostoff wrote:
> I'm asking your permission to commit a bit of porting work for
> kdenetwork/kppp/providerdb.* into trunk:
>
> I'd like to K3Wizard -> KAssistantDialog, and Q3ListBox ->
> KListView/KDirModel derivative
> Along the way I will make small change: if Provider config file has
> Password= and Username= fields with no %USERNAME% or %PASSWORD% in
> them,
> then auth-info page won't be shown, as there is no sense specifying
> any info there because it will be ignored anyway (also true for
> previous kppp versions).
> If you rgrep Password=[^%] kppp/DB/Providers you'll see that there are
> several files that define fixed login/password.
> There are cases when auth info isn't needed. For example, this is the
> case for GPRS/EDGE connections.
> Currently, when faced with such provider config file, a user (she or
> he) will be confused by the auth info page.
>
> As those changes are UI-only and hence easy to test, I believe my
> commit won't cause new bugs appearing in KDE 4.2 release, but instead
> will improve the kppp experience.

Sounds like simple changes. Do you mind posting the patch here? If it looks 
okay, and you feel good about the changes, I see no problem with committing 
it.

Btw, I'm happy to see some activity in KPPP since it is quite unmaintained...

Bye
urs

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