[Gta04-owner] QtMoko v49

[EdorFaus]

On 11/20/2012 10:47 PM, Neil Jerram wrote:
> "arne anka" <openmoko at ginguppin.de> writes:
>> hrm, yes ... clumsy.

> I agree that it would be better to fix this bug :-)  I'm happy to point
> anyone interested at the relevant code.  (I'd get to this eventually,
> but I have several other priorities first.)

I'm interested in taking a look, as it's rather annoying to me as well, 
since I have several different networks I'm near regularly, with a lot 
of others in the same areas. I still haven't gotten this to work right.

(I admit I haven't gotten around to setting up a QtMoko dev environment 
yet, but getting a few pointers for this task might be enough to push me 
into rounding off one of my square tuits.)


I have some ideas for how this interface can be improved, especially 
wrt. connecting to new secured networks, but that's probably going to 
take a while - so I think that I'd start with a change I believe would 
be quite helpful in the meantime: stopping the automatic rescan.

The way I see it, that automatic rescanning is the trigger for most of 
these problems, as the underlying bug of which network has which index 
wouldn't matter much if the list wasn't updated while you were doing 
something. There's a rescan entry in the menu, so you'd still be able to 
rescan as much as needed - and once you've got a list with the network 
you want, you really don't need it to rescan again. Especially not as 
quickly as it's currently doing it.

Of course, automatic rescanning can be nice in some circumstances - so 
it could still be an option - but I'm not so sure it should be default, 
and definitely shouldn't be mandatory like it is now. (Even if the bug 
is fixed, if it rescans at the wrong time, it might move your intended 
target just as you press it...)

-Frode