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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#4354: No dial on demand
From:       "Owen Savill" <Owen.Savill () marconicomms ! com>
Date:       2000-06-01 10:01:43
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Package: kppp
Version: 200000531-mdk

This may be more of a wish really, but I seem to remember someone saying it was
available with KDE 2.

Connections to the internet using a dial up modem must be made manually. Diald
can be used but this is cumbersome to say the least. When developing web
content, for example, it is very nice to be able to bring up the browser and
either connect or work offline. A utility, call it Xdiald, that could detect, as
diald does, outgoing URL's and the like could prompt the user for their
preffered action (including connect automatically for those who don't want to
work offline). This would be advantageous in 2 ways. First, it gives the user
some control. For example, using diald with Netscape. When Netscape starts it
seems to to some kind of URL send (to detect its current on line status maybe
?). If there is no modem attached diald continues to try for some considerable
time before deciding it has failed. From a user perspective Netscape appears to
have hung, because it will not procede until it has a success or fail from the
URL send. Simply being able to press a Work Offline button would greatly help
this situation. Secondly, it would give the user some comfort feedback as to the
progress of the dial up connection. With diald you know nothing about how the
connection attempt is going until either something may, or may not, refresh  on
the display (no nice KDE red and green flashing lights) or diald re-dials !

Anyway, if this is more of a wish than a bug, I've been bashing away about this
lack of functionality for ages and ages and nothing has changed !

Owen

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