Review Request 118516: Load the networkmanager applet on demand

[Sebastian Kügler]

> On June 4, 2014, 11:02 a.m., Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> > How would you connect to a VPN in that case?
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     Is networkmanager used to connect a VPN?
>     (and more generally, are there any features in the plasmoid that can be used without networkmanager running?)
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> Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
>     Yes it is and I think in that case the NM process is started on demand when you activate a VPN connection.
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>     I can't think of any other features using this.
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     Ok, if it's started on demand (can you confirm that?) then means the applet is useful without networkmanager running, so the dbus activation doesn't apply there.

I've never seen the NetworkManager process (and thus its dbus interface) being started on demand by activating a connection. (Doesn't mean it does, just that my use-cases are different, and it deserves a second look). The applet bails out with an error if NetworkManager isn't started, it won't list anything (not even VPN connections) in that case.

The approach to load it on-demand seems fine to me.


- Sebastian


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On June 4, 2014, 10:59 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated June 4, 2014, 10:59 a.m.)
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> Review request for Network Management and Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-nm
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> Description
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> This makes the networkmanagement applet load automatically when the dbus service org.freedesktop.NetworkManager is present and unloads it when it's not.
> In a normal setup shouldn't make much difference, but would automatically disable it for workstations when a fixed ip or dhcp over ethernet is used instead of networkmanager
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> Diffs
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>   applet/metadata.desktop 7eafa44 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118516/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Marco Martin
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