GNOME Wireless Applet

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.8

Notes:
0.8 gwireless_applet release notes
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This is an early release of the gwireless_applet software.  It lacks
a number of user friendly fixes, so please use with caution.  For
example, running this on a computer without wireless extensions compiled
currently has undefined results.  This will be fixed eventually, but for
now, development is focused on functionality.

*PLEASE READ THE INSTALL FILE FOR IMPORTANT INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS*

Enjoy the software, and please let me know of any bugs.

Sujal

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IMPORTANT NOTES and Known issues and limitations

- For now, the encryption key syntax breaks compatibility with
iwconfig.  The key field only accepts alphanumeric (not hex) keys and
does *not* use the 's:' token at the beginning.  In other words, if you
normally enter your key to iwconfig as 's:01234' then enter '01234' in the
text field in the config tool.  If you normally use hex, you'll have to convert
to a string if possible.   This will be fixed by 1.0.

- Switching the ESSID to ANY will cause the application to display
non-specified SSID error in the entry field if you hit 'Apply'.  This is a bug, and will
get fixed.  For now, you can quit and restart the config manager to see
the SSID that gets set.

- Error handling is poor.  The application just quits when an error is reached.
As a workaround, I suggest clicking apply instead of ok.  If the window closes
on pressing reply, an error occured.  You can run the program from the command
line to see debugging output.

- Debug messages have been left on in this release of the manager for the setting
code.  This will help send bug reports in.

- YOU HAVE TO RUN THE MANAGER (gwireless) AS root IN ORDER TO SET ANY VALUES *OR*
READ ENCRYPTION SETTINGS.  A informative dialog will be added to notify you if
you do end up running it without root Privelages.

- The WEP settings will only allow you to deal with one key.  This will not change
until AFTER rev. 1.0.

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TO DO for rev 1 (in no particular order):

- check for memory leaks and bounds checking
- improve error checking and handling
- implement preferences and storage of preferences
- improve WEP functionality to deal with all of the features in iwconfig
  (for one key only).
- bug fixes

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Changes:
Changes from 0.2.1
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    - Initial Functionality for Power Saving, Encryption settings,
      and mode changes now complete
    - small memory leak fix in the applet

Changes from 0.2
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    - build problems solved - sorry!!!
    - various minor bugfixes/tweaks

Changes from 0.1
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    - changed drawing output
    - code now reads in all of the values necessary for rev 1
    - created separate manager program
    - configured the install scripts to install with consolehelper support for the manager