Drop nm-connection-editor?

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.

In Fedora 20 at least, nm-connection-editor is only to:
- edit information about Wi-Fi devices, but we can't actually get to it
  from anywhere in the UI
- Launching an editor for unknown connection types

I think we could probably remove the dependency altogether...