[sugar] letting the user specify the mesh channel

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>> See http://dev.laptop.org/~mdengler/6995/6995_screenshot_45.png
>> for an example of how I currently have it looking.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Currently, I use the presence of a 'Disconnect' entry in the palette
> as a "mnemonic device" to indicate to me that a connection currently
> exists.  Would be nice to keep that.

Hey Mikus -

In the new designs, the Mesh device icon "turns on" (becomes colored)
when the mesh is active, and is rendered in white when it's off.  It
should be even easier to tell the present state, without needing to
dig into the palette.

- Eben

> p.s.  For laughs:   Now that you are *explicitly* showing channel
> numbers -- I have a friend whose home AP is on channel 9.  At his
> house, I manually use 'iwconfig' to set my XO's radio to channel 9,
> to be able to connect to his AP.  I haven't tried setting multiple
> XOs to channel 9 when there is no AP -- but if "mesh" were
> configured to run that way, would your palette show that?   ;>)

No, the mesh channels are independent* of the AP channels; if you
connect to an AP on channel 9, you are not on the mesh, which is only
"offered" on channels 1, 6, and 11.  If you turn the mesh on, you'll
implicitly be disconnected from an AP on channel 9.  If you manually
set the mesh channel otherwise, I doubt it will be reflected in this
palette.

* Note that in the future it will be possible to be connected on the
mesh and to an AP, assuming they are both on the same channel.