Request for review: new desktop groups

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Aug 23 17:36:58 UTC 2012


Bastien Nocera (bnocera at redhat.com) said: 
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:03 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 15:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > As part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReworkPackageGroups, I've
> > > been working on redoing some of the groups that make up installation choices
> > > in anaconda. The idea is to offer a simpler interface, where the user simply
> > > selects which environment they want to run in, plus options for that
> > > environment.
> > > 
> > > Based on what's in the kickstart file for the Desktop spin, here's what I
> > > have for the Desktop:
> > 
> > NetworkManager-gnome is dead, having been replaced by both
> > network-manager-applet and nm-connection-editor, among others.  At this
> > point, the Shell is functional enough that we don't need
> > network-manager-applet anymore for GNOME desktops.  But we still need
> > nm-connection-editor.
> 
> We'll need it until we can get rid of fallback :(

OK, I will make the appropriate substitutions. As an aside:

*NetworkManager*{-glib,-openvpn,-vpnc,etc.}
*network-manager*-applet
*nm*-connection-editor

Not saying we need 100% consistency, but a little might be nice.

Bill


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