ip4-address buddy property - still needed?

[Michail Bletsas]

Yes, we need a relatively user-friendly way to query for that information. 
I don't reall care what it is called as long as I can instruct somebody to 
bring it up with a minimum number of clicks.

M.



Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote on 10/30/2007 08:59:36 AM:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:18:17PM -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote:
> > At this point in time, having as much debug info available in the 
> > developer console without having to remember which command-line tool 
> > provides what, is crucial for collecting problem reports from 
non-expert 
> > users and I would request that the IPv4 information remains where it 
is.
> 
> Apparently the developer console is going away. Or at least it's not 
part of
> the latest joyride builds. So you can't collect your info anymore this 
way.
> 
> Anyway  The big issue for me is that once the ipv4 information is in a
> shipped release we're somewhat doomed to keep it in...  But what your 
actually
> saying is that you want a graphical way to collect this information, not
> specifically that it has to be part of the information salut (or even
> telepathy) has..
> 
> Turning avahi-discover into an XO app, should be reasonably straight 
forward
> (it's a trivial application, using pygtk already). And it has all the
> information you need (and some more). Would that be a solution for your
> problem ?
> 
>   Sjoerd
> -- 
> My geometry teacher was sometimes acute, and sometimes obtuse, but 
always,
> always, he was right.
>    [That's an interesting angle.  I wonder if there are any parallels?]
>