On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Darren Kirby <bulli...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > I am wondering if I should just uninstall KNetworkManager, and try > nm-applet? Will that even work on a KDE desktop? Will it require > installing boatloads of gnome crap I don't want? Should I chuck the > whole works and use Wicd?
I don't know about KNetworkManager, but nm-applet under GNOME works flawless and without need of any configuration. You just need to disable the Gentoo network scripts (with RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.*" in /etc/conf.d/rc) and off you go. No need to change any other configuration file. As I understand, nm-applet uses the Freedesktop standar for notification areas, so it should work with KDE. It will pull part of the GNOME stack, obviously, but is really minimal: RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.16 >=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.74 >=sys-apps/dbus-1.2 >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.14 >=gnome-base/gconf-2.20 >=gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.92 >=x11-libs/libnotify-0.4.3 >=gnome-base/libglade-2 >=gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.20 >=dev-libs/libnl-1.1 >=net-misc/networkmanager-${PV} >=net-wireless/wireless-tools-28_pre9 >=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7 net-misc/mobile-broadband-provider-info bluetooth? ( >=net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth-2.27.6 )" And probably you already have most of those packages. I used to have my own scripts and utilities, and back in the day I knew wpa_supplicant like the palm of my hand. Now not so much; it's not worth it. The GUI utilities (or at least those from GNOME, which is my preferred desktop) never really fail any more. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México