plasma-nm nm09 branch snapshots coming to kde-testing

[Kevin Kofler]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Well, in particular, I'll be moving a new
> kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15
> build into f15's kde-testing repo shortly.  As opposed to prior
> plasma-nm builds in f15 that use some hacks/patches in nm-0.9 to be
> backward compatible with nm-0.8 clients, these newer builds will use
> nm-0.9 in native mode.
> 
> That's a lot of techno-gibberish, admittedly, but what it means is this
> native nm-0.9 support is the future. Moving forward, we'd like to get a
> native nm09 client into f15 as soon as possible, and that means we need
> to test, test, test this sucker.
> 
> So, please go forth and do.  Thank you.

What this also means is that we get or will get new features from kde-
plasma-networkmanagement upstream, including, but not limited to: system 
connections (definitely supported now), Bluetooth tethering, IPv6 support 
(not sure of the status of those, but they're being worked on) etc.

        Kevin Kofler