@Fabio Bump Knetworkmanager-9999 and put it in Limbo for testing? @David Thx for the info.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:35 AM, David Narvaez <[email protected]> wrote: > Since I've been doing all knetworkmanager information mainly by IRC > with Joost and Fabio, let me do a quick recap of what happened with > the knetworkmanager package: > > Since NetworkManager 0.9 was brought into Sabayon with Gnome 3, we > needed a NM client for KDE too, but the Plasma Network Manager applet > that supports NM 0.9 is still in development in a different branch in > the Git repository. We ended up building the knetworkmanager-9999 > package from the live ebuild using the nm09 flag, and after a bug fix > that fixed a crash, I asked for a version bump which is now the > knetworkmanager-9999 revision 1 package, which is where we stand now. > > Recently, a very useful UI feature was added to the applet which is > autodetecting Ad-Hoc vs Infrastructure wifi modes. The use case that > made me think of the need of that feature is connecting to a network > tethered by an Android device. I would love to include that in the > Sabayon Package so I'd like to request a new version bump, but at the > same time, there's an unofficial intention from the developers to make > the nm09 development mainstream and do a release some time next month. > If that happens (and it probably wouldn't if some other stuff is not > yet ready next month) maybe the wisest thing to do is wait for the > merge + new release and package that up. > > What do you think? I'm good with any decision so if we're all ok with > a version bump I can put the request in the BTS. > > David E. Narváez > > >
