Future of KNM/PNM with NM 0.9

Raymond Wooninck tittiatcoke at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 21:55:06 CEST 2011


Will, Sebas, Lamarque,

I indicated yesterday to Vincent Untz that he could push NM 0.9 into Factory 
and that we would apply the patches from Dan Williams. 

It seems however that a different direction has been chosen for the current 
KDE trunk (KDE:Unstable:SC). As soon as I update this repo to the current 
version, then kdebase-workspace will no longer build the Solid support for 
Network Management. This literally means that the plasmoid-networkmanagement 
no longer will show any network devices. 

In practice this would mean that users are forced to start using the NM-applet 
if they want to run KDE:Unstable:SC together with Factory. 

As that  there is absolutely no indication yet when KNM/PNM will support NM 
0.9, I wonder if it wouldn't have been better to create the option that if 
kdebase-workspace detects NM0.9 to activate the patch from Dan Williams to 
have at least some support. I know that it wasn't optimal, but it was 
definitely way better than nothing. 

I would like to know which way we are really going as that I have to prepare 
KDE:Unstable:SC also for NM0.9 and it would be very funny to start putting in 
dependencies to de-install PNM and install NetworkManager-gnome. However at 
the moment, this seems to be the direction we are going.

Regards

Raymond


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