Review Request 118516: Load the networkmanager applet on demand

[Jan Grulich]

> 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.
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> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     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.

You can use VPN connections without NetworkManager and I think that this patch makes sense, because plasma-nm is useless when NetworkManager is running.


- Jan


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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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