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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] net_applet does not switch profile
From:       FACORAT Fabrice <facorat.fabrice () laposte ! net>
Date:       2005-03-29 11:58:10
Message-ID: 200503291358.11066.facorat.fabrice () laposte ! net
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Le Mardi 29 Mars 2005 11:49, Luis Alves a écrit :
> Hi fred
>
> On the new mandrake at boot time if you have multiple profiles the
> fullscreen tunrs grey to allow you to select the network profile. This is
> ugly and not very intuitive in my opinion, and breaks mandrake branding by
> leaving the screen grey after that point.

What about using the Windows way.
At boot, at lilo screen, display at the bootom a message saying :
Press F9 to select alternate network profile

So the user could select a lilo entry and boot ormally, or select a network 
profile and then select a lilo entry.
Of course lilo will need to be seriously patch to support this ...
Syslinux is able to do this for the CD at least.

> Here is my sugestion:
>
> - in the boot just select the last profile selected or use default one.
>
> - after the boot when the user logs in, on the desktop you can ask witch
> profile he wants to use when net_applet is started.

swicthing network profile after the computer have booted may not be a good 
idea ...



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