Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2009, 00:10 +0800 schrieb Fred Chien: > Christoph Wickert: > > Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 11:22 +0800 schrieb Fred Chien: > > > > > >> So the project will has three parts to be maintained: > >> 1. lxnm (LXNM Daemon and command line utility - lxnetctl) > >> 2. lxpanel-netstat (LXPanel plugin) > >> 3. lxnm-applet (standalone applet) > >> > >> For the current version in SVN, lxnm can be working now, we can using > >> lxnetctl utility to connect to lxnm daemon to control our networking > >> devices and get informations include ethernet and wireless interface. > >> > >> BTW, I am now working on lxnm-applet to implement a graphical LXNM > >> client to display and control network devices. > >> > > > > Any particular reason not to use NeworkManager and write two tools of > > their own instead? Why not make lxnm-applet work on top of > > NetworkManager? NM already provides dbus and commandline interfaces and > > a stable API. > > > > Regards, > > Christoph > > > > > Agree so. NetworkManager has full functions to support network > connections operations, we don't have any reason to rewrite a new > utility instead of that. There is a problem that NetworkManager is using > dbus to communicate between daemon and applet, and also it has some > complicated design cause it is heavy and not suitable for some low > resource machines.
LXDE will rely on dbus anyway, so IMO dbus is no problem. IMO we really need dbus, how else would you advertise the current connection status to apps that are aware of it. > Besides, NetworkManager is it is difficult to implement some features > just like mesh networking for NetworkManager, so we need flexible > architecture. That's why rewrite a new one. Mesh is no problem here, happily using on my XO with NM. What exactly is the problem with meshing? Can you tell me more about the other problems you see? > Fred Kind regards, Christoph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
