On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:23 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 14:44 -0400, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Robert Love"> > > > > > Right now both the applet and daemon live in GNOME CVS and are released > > > together. > > > > (I don't think it's important for them to be split, unless you forsee the > > combination having an impact on adherence to the GNOME release schedule.) > > > > I think the crucial thing we need to do when considering new basic tech like > > NetworkManager is grok the integration points. Which modules throughout the > > (official) stack can benefit from integration with NetworkManager? This will > > result in great examples for third party developers and the exercise of use > > cases (possibly) beyond the original scope. > > > > Perhaps the most interesting (in the Chinese sense) is gnome-system-tools. > > Not just because of the static configuration issue, but how we integrate > > configuration in general. > > > > But there are lots of other places this integration matters throughout the > > stack, from Epiphany to applets. > > One of the nice things about NM is knowing when you are connected and > when you are not. Some apps already have patches to utilize this for > say offline modes. > > As for static configuration issues, it is on the NetworkManager > development map though I am not sure how far they have gotten or how > much longer they think it will take. My guess is it is not very soon. > I know at Red Hat at least, one of the goals when starting NM was to > replace the if* stack so we didn't have to maintain two networking > systems. Unfortunately, dynamic networks is still a big mountain to > climb.
The basic daemon capabilities are there, you can set static IP's via sysconfig on opensuse/sled. > Anyway as part of the release team +1 for NM-applet being in the release > and gnome apps starting to (optionally) rely on the extra info NM can > give them. Online/offline information should really be a platform API. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list