Solid, Network Management, Pardus, and some more

[Will Stephenson]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 13:07:58 Dario Freddi wrote:
> Anyway, I am writing you after having seen this post on the planet:
> http://blog.ratonred.com/2009/02/network-manager-plasmoid/ .
>
> My priority upon coming back was to finish off my work on the Wicd engine,
> though, after having seen this, I think the priority should be making the
> network management plasmoid based on Solid only. I don't know the current
> status of the code, but I would be willing to take over this part and
> remove eventual bits of networkmanager code and make it abstract.

I'm skeptical that Solid abstraction is appropriate here.  Due to the 
complexity and different feature sets of each backend, I am not sure that a 
lowest common denominator C++ abstraction layer would be satisfactory to users 
of any backend.

> Since I can see more backends coming, I think we should aim to make the
> applet abstract before releasing it. Please let me know what you think
> about that.

I think we should make it backend-independent.  I am not sure how to do the 
abstraction so that we support each backend's full feature set usefully.  I 
think a first step would be to list the features of each backend that we want 
to support and see what we have in common and what is peculiar. 

Gökmen, could you do the same for the comar backend?

Will