Bug 1112230

Summary:	RFE: add attribute "limited data" to connection and expose it via API/DBUS
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcbw, e, jklimes, kalevlember, kparal, mjuszkie, psimerda
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Description Miroslav Suchý 2014-06-23 11:37:07 UTC

It would be nice, if you can mark some network connection as 'data are expensive' e.g. 2/3G over GSM, classic modem. Or that 'data are cheap'- e.g. wifi, ADSL, LAN.
And expose this information over API or DBUS. So application can postpone prefetching or caching when connected via 'data expensive' network.

In this thread:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/200171.html
and especially:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/200198.html
was said that DNF should not cache metadata over slow network. But the truth is that DNF does not have this information. It would be nice, if DNF and other application can get this information from NetworkManager.

Similar behaviour can be seen on Android, where lots of applications have checkbox "sync only on WiFi".

I believe whole range application can benefit from those informations:
DNF, Firefox (password and bookmark syncing), Dropbox, RSS readers, Torrent downloaders etc...

Comment 1 Marcin Juszkiewicz 2014-06-23 11:59:36 UTC

Allow to set transfer limits as well?

Comment 2 Jirka Klimes 2015-05-29 12:18:16 UTC

There is an upstream bug for that now: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741725
and also RHEL bug: bug 1200452

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2015-08-18 14:56:53 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.