[Mageia-dev] Drakxnet, drakroam and Draknetcenter : let's fix it or throw it.

Mon Aug 1 11:42:26 CEST 2011

Hello,
+
+I should have written this mail much sooner, but finally, I am totally, 
+completely and starting to be hatefully fed up of these tools.
+
+The Mandriva/Mageia tools that manage the network on computers, 
+especially the wireless networks are completely dysfunctional. While the 
+Network Center does not seem to even communicate with the system tools 
+to know what is happening during the link setup, it does not 
+auto-refresh network lists properly.
+
+Since 2010.1 now even mixes up itself in it's own network scripts (the 
+ones stored in wireless.d). This maxes it wrongly detect numerous 
+wireless points (he seen WPA2 Enterperise hotspots as opened or WEP, or 
+more nerving, becomes incapable or storing the right authentication 
+information). A tool that breaks itself is a complete shame!
+
+The GUI is also appalling. Despite it's numerous possibilities, it is a 
+mess and 60% of it cannot be used by something else than the system or a 
+network expert.
+
+The code itself is undocumented and it extremely difficult to read.
+
+These tools are getting really bad and not working properly anyway since 
+a long time now. So either we fix it and improve it (recoding?), either 
+we definitely switch to Network Manager. I am ready to participate if 
+necessary (despite my lack of competence), but I do not want to see 
+these tools 'as is' on my computer anymore, and no longer want to see 
+these issues that down Mageia's reputation in comparison to other 
+popular projects here such as Arch, Fedora or Ubuntu, who do have proper 
+tools delivered by default.
+
+This is not the first time I complain about this tool. We should not 
+leave this unchanged. It is far too annoying and pushing to so much loss 
+of time.
+
+Yours sincerely,.
+
+Thomas.
+