[Sugar-devel] How to disable "Authentication Required By Wireless Network" popup in Fedora 17

[Ajay Garg]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:29:37PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> >> >
> >> > ajay wrote:
> >> >  > Hi Paul.
> >> >  >
> >> >  > Well, I am doing development on sugar-jhbuild F17.
> >> >  >
> >> >  > So, after I launch sugar-emulator, I wish to have the sugar
> >> >  > network-authentication popup pop up (if at all), and not the gnome
> >> > one.
> >> >
> >> > ah.  sugar vs.  gnome.  now that i understand your problem, i find i
> >> > can be of no help whatsoever.  sorry!
> >>
> >> Indeed, I have no idea either.  Running GNOME at the same time as
> >> Sugar means NetworkManager might behave differently, as it has
> >> multiple clients.  So I never wanted to try that.  Because it would
> >> not be representative of the typical usage.
> >
> >
> > Exactly !!!!
>
> This functionality was just introduced in F17, NetworkManager 0.9.x.
> Previously you could only have one client connected to the
> NetworkManager daemon at a time.  Now the behavior has changed
> to make it work better with fast-user-switching.
>
> This new connection sharing also causes secrets to be handled
> differently.  Previously everything was stored in your gnome-keyring,
> now by default secrets are stored at the system level.  A client
> can register to be a secrets provider however I don't know if this has
> been implemented in sugar yet.
>
>
> >>
> >>
> >> When I was last testing Sugar and NetworkManager interaction, I did it
> >> on a system, such as an XO, without GNOME running.  I edited the
> >> source files live and restarted Sugar to see the changes.  When I had
> >> finished, I copied my changes out of the target and into git using ssh.
> >
> >
> > Well, that would indeed work. Thanks for the idea .. :D :D
>
> I may have more information about this this weekend.  I currently
> have an unstable network connection and the NetworkManager
> password popups are annoying me.  If I find anything interesting
> I will update everyone.
>


Waiting for anything interesting, whole heartedly !! :)


Regards,
Ajay


>
> -Jon
>
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