From kde-devel Mon Feb 15 13:35:13 1999 From: Carlo Wood Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:35:13 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: feature idea - feedback wanted X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=91909311110320 Waldo Bastian, bastian@kde.org wrote: | | Very good. | | I think we need to offer a CORBA service to which applications | can subscribe and which can tell whether the network is up/down/ | goind up/going down and which can handle requests like "bring | network up", "bring network down". | | You can then make various CORBA modules, depending on the situation | which can implement this Interface. | | A good candidate would be to make a module which uses KPPP. | | Another module could be made for a fixed connection: | It would always return UP and gives a usefull error when a | "bring down" request is made. | | Any exotic (hardware/OS dependant) other scenario can be supported | by making a CORBA module for it which support this same interface. | | Cheers, | Waldo Bastian | bastian@kde.org | -- | Please forward this message to kde-devel. I am not into CORBA, so I'll leave to others :). Note however that I never mentioned to allow the "bring network up/down", that is something different then polling (or getting notified) about whether or not the network *is* up/down. It is also a lot harder to write a general interface that would allow this. -- Carlo Wood