Network-manager has been proposed for Gnome 2.18 so it is probably going to be included:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel- list/2006-October/msg00018.html -- Network-manager should be installed by default https://launchpad.net/bugs/59014 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
