Review Request 118516: Load the networkmanager applet on demand
Marco Martin
notmart at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 12:16:40 UTC 2014
> 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.
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> The approach to load it on-demand seems fine to me.
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> Jan Grulich wrote:
> You can use VPN connections without NetworkManager and I think that this patch makes sense, because plasma-nm is useless when NetworkManager is running.
So I pushed it for now. IF it causes problems can always be reverted
- Marco
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On June 4, 2014, 12:13 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated June 4, 2014, 12:13 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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