Network Manager is a tricky topic so I'll try to make this as unbiased as possible.
WICD offers a solid replacement to NetworkManager while keeping almost all the features. The only thing I can think of that would keep someone from switching outright is that Network Manager has built-in VPN support. After a poll of some sort we could then decide if we also needed to ship a VPN client by default. Also, since the next release is LTS it might make sense to wait to make the switch as going from NetworkManager to WICD is as easy as apt-get --purge autremove networkmanager - J -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
