Richard Atterer wrote:
> reopen 362962
> retitle 362962 Please document that nm-applet needs the "notification area"
> applet to appear on the panel [was: Networkmanager is not present in the
> gnome-panel applets listing]
> thanks
>
> Hello,
>
> it took 15 minutes of head-scratching, running nm-applet manually, reading
> manpages etc. before I figured out that you have to add the "notification
> area" applet to the panel to see the NetworkManager icon.
>
> Please make this clearer in the documentation! It'd be great if you could
> add it in several places:
>
> - Put it in the package description. For example:
> Note: The "Notification Area" applet must be running for
> the NetworkManager icon to appear on your panel.
> - Put it in the nm-applet manpage more clearly - state that you have to
> add the "notification area" applet to the panel. The manpage talks about
> a "notify-area", but I had no idea so far what that area is, and whether
> it was already existent on my desktop.
> - Put it in the README.Debian for both network-manager{-gnome,}
> The manpage points the user to
> /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian for the information on "how
> to add nm-applet in your gnome notify-area", but that file doesn't
> discuss installing the applet at all.
> First of all, the notification area applet is added to the gnome panel by default. So this shouldn't be a problem at all. For people that remove the notification area applet from the gnome-panel, I assume they know what they are doing. Second, the description of network-manager-gnome says, that it is a notification area applet. Third, network-manager-gnome is not Gnome specific, it runs in every DE which support the systray fd.o standard [1], e.g. XFCE, KDE or also openbox' docker area. So I think adding Gnome specific documentation might be a bit misleading. Fourth, the man page is indeed not consistent when talking about notify-area. It should be called notification area to be consistent. This is the only change I'd consider. Fifth, there are many other programs, that use a systray icon. Should they all contain documentation about how to enable the systray dock of their desktop environment of choice. I don't think so. I'm intended to close this bug, but first want to hear your comment. Cheers, Michael [1]http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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