[Kde-hardware-devel] Do we want to drop support for "enterprise" devices in plasma-nm applet?

[Jan Grulich]

Hi,

in the upcoming NetworkMager version they decided to drop support for "enterprise" 
devices in nm-applet, like bond, bridge, infiniband, team or vlan. The reason for this is 
that their usage on desktop is not that common and mostly they just take space, like 
virbr0 (bridge) connection which is created automatically by virtualbox or libvirt and 
you cannot remove it or do anything with it. Their preferred way to configure/manage 
those devices is now nmcli.

I propose ignoring those devices only in the applet and keeping them only in the editor 
where you should be still able to configure them and even activated them.

NM change:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=4b8eade[1] 

NM bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753369[2] 

And btw. gnome-shell also ignores those devices.

What do you think?

Regards,
Jan
-- 
Jan Grulich <jgrulich at redhat.com>
Software Engineer, Desktop team
Red Hat Czech

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[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=4b8eade
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753369
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