Drop nm-connection-editor?

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 20:04 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> We can't drop it: There are things it does the Network panel can't do. The
> Network panel actually invokes nm-connection-editor in many cases.
> 
> Anyway, I do think we should either split the .desktop file to a separate
> subpackage that won't be installed by default, or add a rule in the
> .desktop file saying it shouldn't be shown in GNOME.

nm-ce is intended to be the "everything" option; it's very
understandable that the GNOME network panel won't necessarily implement
everything that NM can do (for example, Data Center Bridging), so we may
wish to keep it available.  That doesn't mean it has to be installed by
default though.

The panel still uses the editor for 802.1x setup and some advanced stuff
I think.  I'm fine with setting "don't show in GNOME", but that would
ideally be either (a) a Fedora specific patch, or (b) if there was some
way to restrict it to GNOME 3.6+ but leave it for GNOME 2.x.

Dan

> 
> Relevant: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682456
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org>wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> >
> > I think nm-connection-editor is mostly redundant with the Network panel
> > in gnome-control-center. We already drop other redundant settings
> > programs (e.g. system-config-printer and the ibus settings program);
> > maybe we can cut this one as well?
> >
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