wicd

Wired network entry should be available during rescan

Bug #322363 reported by David Niergarth
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
wicd
Fix Released
Wishlist
Adam Blackburn
wicd 1.7.0

Bug Description

The wired network entry seems to be needlessly unavailable during the wireless network scan. Every time you pop up wicd-client (even if it's just minimized) you have to wait 7-8 seconds for the scan to finish before you can do anything with the wired network. This gets irritating when all you're after is managing the wired connection. See dano's note below from http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=419

dano wrote:
> The wired network entry is grayed out while scanning because of the
> way the UI is written. Both the wired entry and wireless entries
> are part of the same internal network list, which gets rebuilt
> when you click the "Refresh" button. We disable the entries
> list because trying to access a member of the list while its
> being rebuilt can lead to undesired behavior (connecting to the
> wrong network, crashes, etc.). I can take a look at reworking
> the code so the wired entry is still available during a rescan.
> File a bug report on it through Launchpad.

Thanks for considering this,

--David

Dan O'Reilly (oreilldf)
Changed in wicd:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn) wrote :

Perhaps this is something we can fix for 1.6?

Changed in wicd:
milestone: none → 1.6.3
Revision history for this message
David Niergarth (jdnier) wrote :

I'm currently using 1.6.1. The "Disconnect All" button is a quick way to short circuit the wireless scan when I'm switching networks anyway. But I still think opening wicd client and having to wait 7-8 seconds just to interact with it is bad interface design. Even after its minimized in the wicd tray, bringing it to the foreground still makes you wait. So, my suggestions are:

1. The wired network items should always be available (don't gray them out during the rescan).
2. Don't force a rescan of wireless networks whenever you unminimize wicd client; I'll click the refresh button if I want to rescan.

Thanks for considering.

Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)
Changed in wicd:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)
Revision history for this message
Robby Workman (rworkman) wrote :

Fixed (partially) in r475: the wired settings are now visible while scanning, but it's still not possible to do anything to them. Whether that's possible to fix, I don't know.

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Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn) wrote :

Robby: My card takes about a second to scan so I can't hit connect to see what happens if I try to connect while scanning. What happens if you click connect while scanning?

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Robby Workman (rworkman) wrote :

Somehow or another, this appears to work as expected now (in 1.7.0a2), so this can be marked as fixed.

Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)
Changed in wicd:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)
Changed in wicd:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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