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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Are we connected ?
From:       Matt Koss <koss () napri ! sk>
Date:       1999-05-17 11:11:40
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On Ne, 16 máj 1999, Mats Loman wrote:
>On Sun, 16 May 1999, Matt Koss wrote:
>
>
>I have not followed this thread but here are some things to think about:
>
>There are users that have ISDN routers that connects to the internet on
>demand, how do we handle that sitiuation?
>
>There are apps like whatever-ICQ ( or a app that fetches mail ) that
>needs to know when we are onlnie and when we are not.We dont want that
>type of  application to trig a dialup each time it want to poll.
>
>I would like the notify system to be able to handle this situation.
>

I am a dialup user, and of course that I don't want Caitoo to connect whenever
we are disconnected. But users with other types of connection might want just
this.

That's why the service will perform two tasks.
First will inform the application about the status of connection.
Second will allow applications to request connection - something like
connect-on-demand.

This should be of course configurable and allow combining. Some users might
want their applications to connect automatically and some not.

I think that rather then having this approach application-oriented (
differentiating between ICQ, kbiff, kmail and whatsoever ), it should by
user / connection oriented.
Users will simply select the type of connection they have and choose whether
they want to have applications connect automatically or only check the
connections.

However, I guess that per-applications settings could be useful too. Thus
configuration could have general settings + per-application settings (
something like kwm does ).


  Regards

			Matt


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