Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Mark Shuttleworth]

>I do still feel that we should have a consistent set of packages installed.
>If the user later inserts a WiFi card, they should get the applet (and thus
>they must already have it installed).
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OK, that's REALLY getting fancy :-)

For warty: we will just have a nice "disabled" icon that is less scary, 
and the user can remove the applet from the panel.

For future, our best proposal is an install-time check that decides what 
the default panel should look like. If you want that to happen each time 
the machine boots, then remember we have to figure out if the user has 
already decided to remove that panel. So for example, if I don't have a 
wifi card, it shouldn't show up. Then I boot with a wifi card, and it 
should show. I decide I don't need it and remove it. Now I boot again - 
it should NOT show... because I already decided I didn't want it.

Ouch, that could be hairy. Not even Hoary :-)

And, of course, what we really want is for the applet to appear 
magically when the user hotplugs a cardbus wifi card for the first time :-)

Must be living somewhere in Utopia...

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