The various VPN plugins have GUI components themselves. -derek
Jakob Petsovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi list, > > how difficult would it be to remove the dependencies on libgnomeui, bonobo > and > maybe gconf in the vpnc, openvpn and pptp plugins? The reason I'm asking is > that I'm using Kubuntu with KNetworkManager, and although the NetworkManager > core is desktop independent, the plugins (which are required also for > KNetworkManager's VPN support) pull in a big load of GNOME libraries which > I'd prefer not to install if they are not really necessary. > > Are the desktop dependencies mandated by NetworkManager's design, or just a > result of not investing much effort into that topic? (From what I read on the > NetworkManager website, it's at least supposed to be desktop independent, if > I get it right.) Would it be possible to factor out the GNOME dependencies > into nm-applet or is that less feasible? > > Sorry for just asking from a user point of view, I am not familiar with > NetworkManager's code at the moment. > > Thanks for taking your time to answer, > Jakob > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
