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

[Jan Grulich]

Done. I pushed a change which should now filter out mentioned device/connection 
types from the applet, notifications etc. except the connection editor.

Regards,
Jan

On Wednesday 16 of December 2015 15:26:51 Jan Grulich wrote:
> 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