Bug 52053

Summary:	suggestions for features in KPPP,
Product:	[Unmaintained] kppp	Reporter:	Harri Porten <porten>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Harri Porten <porten>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	justin.zobel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Harri Porten 2002-12-18 09:55:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.99)
Installed from:    I Don't Know

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:37:02 +0000
From: Doug Neal <doug@neal.me.uk>
To: porten@kde.org
Subject: KPPP suggestions

Hi!

I would like to make some suggestions for features in KPPP, as I have just 
tried to set it up and found it slightly limiting for my purposes.

1. Different modem settings for different connections. For example, to be able 
to choose a different connection to switch between serial port and the IR 
port rather than edit the settings each time.
2. More device nodes listed, /dev/ircomm0 doesn't appear to be available
3. Disabling modem dial speed selection (ATS11=), sometimes it doesn't work 
e.g. my mobile phone returns an error with this command...

I may try and implement these things myself but I have never programmed in C++ 
before so I don't know how far I would get :)

Thanks for the great software. :)

Cheers,

Doug

Comment 1 Lex V. Ross 2004-07-23 21:27:34 UTC

I agree,the device tab should go into connection setup dialogue. As to the modem tab, I think in most cases having additional init string under connection setup is fine.

As an immediate solution it would be nice if KPPP could regognize the Modem= line in the [Account] section, that is, in kppprc one could say

[Account0]
....
Modem="Modem0"
....
[Account1]
....
Modem="Modem1"
.....
[Modem]
....
[Modem0]
......
[Modem1]

with [Modem] section reserved for default modem when no Modem line is present in the [Account] section. As to the GUI, I trust Harri Porten to know better. KDE project does an excellent job on GUI standards. I'd like to thank the KDE team here once again!

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-09 20:48:29 UTC

This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/kppp

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.