[Kde-hardware-devel] networkmanagement moved to extragear

Ozan Çağlayan ozan at pardus.org.tr
Thu Jul 22 08:10:27 CEST 2010


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?

Thanks for the great work!

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Ozan Çağlayan
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