[Bug 13727] Re: [network-admin] locations do not get saved correctly

[Mike Gratton]

I'm waiving my own flag here, but I think instant apply to the currently
selected location is still the better way to go (see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170663#c11).

You avoid the extra buttons, the dialog acts exactly like every other
Gnome preferences window and it is pretty obvious what is going on to
the user.

I can't think of any use case for upstream's concern with wanting to
make some change to the current settings and not wanting to save it.
Networks tend to be static things - once you set it up, you want to keep
it like that and the settings rarely change later on. I'd be interested
to know when this is likely to happen.

If the DHCP dialog was cancellable, then having to switch to a profile
to delete it might not be so bad. As an alternative, have a seperate UI
for editing the list of profiles, as MacOSX does.

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[network-admin] locations do not get saved correctly
https://launchpad.net/bugs/13727