Network Management Plasmoid

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Fri Oct 30 01:47:21 CET 2009


On Tuesday 27 October 2009 03:17:15 Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 04:17:45 you wrote:
> > Hi Will,
> >
> > Was wondering what's keeping the Network Management plasmoid in
> > playground rather than getting it moved to kdeplasma-addons or kdebase.
> >
> > I'm quite tired of using nm-applet and would be willing to put a little
> > bit of time towards making it work better.
> 
> Hiya Matt
> 
> I've put most work into knetworkmanager using the Network Management libs.
> This is what I'd call 1.0 and move to extragear/network.  But I'd like
>  proper icons first.
> 
> For the next iteration it needs
> * input validation, currently stubbed.
> * minimal popups when asking for new secrets instead of showing the full
> dialog
> * more info in the main tooltip and icon (vpn state, connection progress)
> * ModemManager integration (shows cellular signal strength, allows network
> selection)
> * mobile broadband provider database (partly implemented, needs merging)
> 
> The plasmoid frontend needs work on the painting code to show all the
>  status that the knetworkmanager UI can.
> 
> I'm cc'ing the list so others can also see what's to do.
> 
> Will
> 

So if I don't care about vpn or any of that stuff, then I can go ahead and use 
the applet now?
-- 
Matt
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