On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:54:30 Will Stephenson wrote:
> I'd like to propose that the Network Management stack 
> (libs,knetworkmanager,plasmoid) moves to extragear/network in time for KDE 
> 4.4.  This way it's released but still has the schedule flexibility to
>  react  to changes in NetworkManager and possibly other network management
>  backend systems.

The Plasmoid is not ready yet, and might not be in time for 4.4. It's also not 
easy 
to split off. I'd not build it for now so we don't have people accidentally 
using it 
and then wonder why it doesn't work. I hope I can get some substantial 
improvements 
in in time for 4.4, but there's a good chance that it won't be ready. Having 
the 
plasmoid separate would certainly not help development of it, but I'm happy 
with a 
separate review of this piece of code when the time comes. I hope people are OK 
with 
this modus operandi?

That said, the other components are good to go into 4.4. They're being released 
by at 
least two distros in their standard install and Will has been fixing bugs left 
and 
right to make it solid.

> Does anyone disagree with this?

I think it's a good idea. Maybe kdebase is even a better (I consider connecting 
to 
networks basic functionality), but as you note, upstream (networkmanager, 
connman, 
wicd, ...) might require intermediate releases. We could probably still do 
those, 
even if we end up in kdebase, of course.
-- 
sebas

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