Request for review: new desktop groups

[Adam Williamson]

On 2012-08-23 9:04, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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 NetworkManager-gnome is dead, having been replaced by both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 :(

As things stand you need it for longer than that. The 'Network' part of 
control-center actually runs nm-connection-editor to configure certain 
types of connections, like VPNs. See 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849268 .
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