On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 10:29 +0100, Guillaume Quintard wrote: > and it's me again, with a question about this page: > http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec.html > > using state() of org.freedesktop.NetworkManager is said deprecated in > 0.7, but it works fine, and I haven't seen any other (easy) way to > check the connections? > > could someone shed some light on that point please?
The NetworkManager D-Bus interface changed drastically between 0.6 and 0.7 to become more flexible and support more types of devices. Certain legacy methods were preserved to maintain compatibility with programs that used 0.6 for network state discovery, ie "Am I connected to something?" questions. That's why there are so many ways to get the overall NM state. But as you've discovered, those methods are marked "deprecated", because they are only provided as a compatibility mechanism, and are likely to be removed in NetworkManager 0.8 or later. They will exist for the lifetime of NetworkManager 0.7 though. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
