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Right now, if I'm downloading a bunch of stuff, the pings won't go through, and it will drop from VPN to WWAN. I should also check the traffic level, if its high, we don't need to ping, and we can even skip that check and save on some CPU and IO.

I haven't thought too much about what this is like the first time you are setting up. Think about it. Make it good.

After adding a JSON status file as a way to communicate between the service and the gnome-shell extension, I use 10% CPU on the service and 5% on the gnome-shell extension. That doesn't seem so good. Maybe I should use dbus or something else that's less CPU and IO expensive.

So you don't have to do a bunch of mv and chmod commands by hand. Eliminates a bunch of steps from the installation.

• show signal strength of the wifi
• notify when the status changes
• select a wifi network and enter a password

11a performs better than 11g, at least in my tests. Give 11a a 20% advantage, as long as its above the minimum, when choosing the strongest network.

makes it easier to see why vpn won't connect

Configure ppp and tun adapters automatically. Eliminates 2 steps in the installation.

You know, to get another cool icon. And to help motivate test writing.

https://coveralls.io/

eliminates a prereq which is nice

Create an OpenBSD port/package to make it much easier for users to install.

Would be nice to do this for you. Not sure it can be done without some strangeness/badness, i.e. asking for root on server to install stuff.

In the Gnome Shell extension, if you have too many wifi networks, the list runs off the screen and you can't see or scroll to the end of the list.

Instead of a blanket 'wwan' is ok or 'wlan' is not ok, allow networks to be marked trusted or untrusted (default to untrusted). Untrusted networks can only be used for connecting over vpn, they are not allowed to route general traffic.

Sometime winot gets in a bad state and doesn't notice it needs to restart the nic.

At some places, like airports and cafes, when you first try to surf the web, they hijack your web session and direct you to a website where you must accept their terms before you can connect to the outside world.

At present, this does not play well with PF rules that disallow traffic except through VPN.

Use some Haskell library for generating the Javascript code, instead of doing it by hand.

that way folks can use this just for wifi and wwan if they want

its the new hotness
waiting for Stack to support it though

I've been losing connection a lot lately. Is the underlying ping to the network local network bad? Is the SSH connection bad? Log the reason, so its easier to troubleshoot by an end user, and so I can have the app react smarter depending on the reason.

The extension was written by someone that has little experience with Javascript and less with the Gnome libraries. Further, it was hacked together, cargo-culting and copy-pasting until it 'worked'. Variables are named poorly, the code is not organized well, etc. It could use a refactor by someone that knows what they are doing, or, short of that, someone that has a good eye for clean code.

It would neat if Haskell could help somehow, i.e. helping avoid type bugs and such, see related #23.

that way folks can use just the wifi and/or vpn parts