GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 693025
no longer possible to edit hotspot options
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:07:16 UTC
Apparently there used to be an options button on the hotspot details page, but it disappeared in the new UI, meaning there's no way to change the hotspot options. (Ideally it seems to me that you ought to be able to edit them *before* the hotspot activates; your hostname might be something that you don't want to broadcast to everyone in the area, or alternatively something not obvious enough to the people you wanted it to be obvious too. Or it may conflict with another network name in the area.)
Additionally... the whole "default to the same options as last time without asking the user" means that the user gets locked into whatever the settings were the first time they used the hotspot functionality. Eg, if you ever created an Ad-Hoc hotspot, then you can't create an AP-mode hotspot now, and if you ever created a WEP hotspot, you won't be able to create a WPA hotspot when that's possible (bug 678287). Also, with WPA you'd be able to use real passwords rather than needing to use hex for compatibility, so we might want to let the user specify that.
*** Bug 722172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > Additionally... the whole "default to the same options as last time without > asking the user" means that the user gets locked into whatever the settings > were the first time they used the hotspot functionality. Eg, if you ever > created an Ad-Hoc hotspot, then you can't create an AP-mode hotspot now, and if > you ever created a WEP hotspot, you won't be able to create a WPA hotspot when > that's possible (bug 678287). Also, with WPA you'd be able to use real > passwords rather than needing to use hex for compatibility, so we might want to > let the user specify that. That would be fixed by implementing bug 735911.
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