[Kde-hardware-devel] networkmanagement moved to extragear

[Will Stephenson]

On Thursday 22 July 2010 08:10:27 Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> Çarşamba 21 Temmuz 2010 günü (saat 17:28:19) Sebastian Kügler şunları
> 
> yazmıştı:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've moved the networkmanagement stack from kdereview/networkmangement to
> > extragear/base/networkmanagement today. The new checkout URL therefore
> > is:
> > 
> > svn+ssh://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/base/networkmanagement
> > 
> > While we initially decided during Akademy that it's basic functionality
> > which belongs into kdebase for a complete experience, in the end we went
> > for extragear/base for the following reason: We need intermittent
> > releases between KDE SC releases: Now you could say "just roll a tarball
> > of that directory then and release that". We could have done that, but
> > either way we'd force packagers to split out networkmanagement from base
> > again in order to be able to ship the updates.
> > 
> > Intermittent releases that won't fit into SC releases could contain:
> > 
> > - more complete support for mobile broadband connections
> > - UI and workflow improvements
> > - support for other backends (non-NetworkManager)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Last time I've checked, it was not able to manage system wide NM
> connections. Is it a planned feature?

Yes, by me.

Does this mean Pardus is using org.freedesktop.NetworkManager now?

Will