Netapplet

[Nadeem Bitar]

Dan,

even though NetworkManager seems technically superior to netapplet,
netapplet has a nicer user interface and works for me. I had problems
with NetworkManager and had it fail many times especially when i switch
from a wired to a wireless connection. Also I am not sure where to get
the applet. I hope that NetworkManger would evolve into a powerful
network management tool and not be as buggy as neat, which always had
problems with multiple profiles. If you look at the archives you would
find me waiting since redhat 8.0 for an easy network configuration tool
and having either NetworkManger or netapplet/netdaemon work would be
great. 

FYI:
rpm -qa |grep NetworkManager
NetworkManager-0.3.1-1
NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.1-1

Nadeem

On 日, 2004-10-24 at 20:40 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
> > Please include the netapplet[1] in FC3.
> >  I have spent the last few hours trying to compile it myself and install
> > it with no success. For mobile users who change network settings two
> > times a day or more, this applet is a must.
> 
> Nadeem,
> 
> netapplet won't get in FC3 for a few reasons...
> 
> 1) FC3 is already locked.  No new things are going in, and only critical 
> bugfixes make the cut.
> 
> 2) We're moving to NetworkManager 
> (http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager).  NM uses dbus and exposes 
> a rich network information and control interface to userspace 
> applications, much more than netapplet does.  What NM doesn't do that 
> netapplet does right now is support dialup connections, but in the near 
> future we hope that's a possiblity.  Except for dialup, NetworkManager 
> does everything that netapplet does, and alows user applications like 
> Evolution, Firefox, etc to know about the network state (like offline 
> mode, for example).  It also automatically switches network interfaces if 
> desired, so that when you dock your laptop for example, it will switch to 
> the wired interface automatically.
> 
> 3) There really isn't a place for more than 1 wireless applet, and we had 
> 3 to choose from (gnome-applets one, NetworkManager, and netapplet)
> 
> Dan
>