Review Request 118516: Load the networkmanager applet on demand

[Lukáš Tinkl]

> On June 4, 2014, 1:02 p.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?)

Yes it is and I think in that case the NM process is started on demand when you activate a VPN connection.

I can't think of any other features using this.


- Lukáš


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On June 4, 2014, 12:59 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated June 4, 2014, 12:59 p.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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