Re: netapplet Gentoo Patch.

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi Robert :),

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:32 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:05 -0400, Mike Chavoustie wrote:
> 
> > I just recently did the same Gentoo port myself -- but I got a chance to 
> > finish. :)  The best that I have been able to tell, it's fully 
> > functional.  It works great here @ school with 5/6 networks available.
> 
> Woo.  Sweet!
> 
> What I would like to see if the general separation of the system-
> independent and system-dependent bits and a configuration system for
> picking your distribution, so we can merge all of this stuff into CVS
> and have it all just work.

I could be even sweeter if we used the network backend from the gnome
system tools, so it could just work on suse, debian, gentoo, and many
others

I've got a patch that retrieves interfaces from the backend XML [1], so
it's distro independent (as far as the backend supports the distro),
It's only missing the bits that store the ESSID and key in the config
file, bits that I hope to finish it this night

I'm telling this without having a full working patch yet because I
really think that this is the *way* if you want to support several
distros out of the box

	Thanks


[1] setup-tools-backends module in the GNOME cvs, after gst 1.0 it will
be distributed separatedly from the frontends

> 
> Otherwise, what was the demand for us creating a CVS repo for?
> 
> Best,
> 
> 	Robert Love
> 
> 
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