> On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 09:13 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Dear NetworkManager folks, > > > > > > I am excited for the 1.0 release! Before that happens a small question. > > > > NetworkManager is a GNOME project, could you please clarify what the > > future of the applet is now that GNOME Shell provides an “applet”(?) > > themselves? > > NM is actually more of a freedesktop.org project, but we just happen to use > a lot of the GNOME infrastructure because it's a pain to change everything > over (especially bugzilla!). > > But anyway, the GNOME desktop will continue to use and develop the > GNOME Shell network indicator and control center network panel, because > they are a much better fit for the UI and interaction design of the GNOME > Shell. > > However, we (the NetworkManager project) intend to continue to maintain > nm-applet and nm-connection-editor as standalone components that other > GTK-based desktops like LXDE and XFCE can use. While nm-applet is clearly > receiving less attention than it has in the past, it's not going to die. > > If anyone is interested in helping maintain the applet, or implement new > features, or make it look slicker, please start sending patches and cleanups! > Is this speaking of network-manager-applet or something else called nm-applet that could be used with gtk and a non-gnome window manager like fluxbox, flwm, etc?
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