Fwd: Re: [Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts] +nm-applet

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Monday, July 19, 2010 08:43:14 am Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rahul shared some of the same concern that Kevin did about this recent
> change I made.
> 
> I have to admit, I share some of the same pragmatic sentiments that
> Rahul does (esp in areas where stability/features are even wider, like
> with kpackagekit).
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -- Rex
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts] +nm-applet
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:33:52 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>
> To: The Spin Special Interest Group mailing list
> <spins at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> CC: Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org>
> 
> On 07/19/2010 01:18 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > +# provide nm-applet as fallback in cases where knm/nm-plasmoid fails
> > +NetworkManager-gnome
> 
> I assume this requires manual reconfiguration by the user.  Couldn't knm
> or nm-plasmoid whichever one is the future for KDE just be fixed to
> support everything nm-applet does?  If you don't have feature parity,
> you should just bite the bullet and continue to include nm-applet by
> default and ignore the purity angle.   Including both is not the right
> approach IMO.
> 
> Rahul

While travelling at the moment. im realising again how horrible the user 
experience of KNM is. Connecting to a new wireless network is way more work 
that it should be. At least for me clicking on a network in the plasmoid does 
not correctly bring up the new network configuration dialog.  though really it 
should just prompt  for the password and offer to save in kwallet or not.  but 
i guess that comes back to the bug that knetworkmanager just doesnt know how 
to give you a dialog to prompt for a password. even though the ui says it can.

My recomendation is to use nm-applet only.  Im currently running the plasmoid 
on rawhide.

Dennis
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