Re: netapplet Gentoo Patch.

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi all,

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 09:46 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> 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

In case anyone cares, I've finished my patch, it now treats system
dependent information in a common way, adding a dependency to the system
tools backends and libxml (this maybe could be done with gmarkup,
though)

You can find the patch in:

http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/netapplet/netapplet-patch.diff

The init.d script is still pretty suse dependent, but I think that it's
fixed in the Matthew's patch

	Carlos

> 
> 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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