Re: NetworkManager

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Mike Hearn wrote:
> Okay. One other thing, I'm a bit confused about the relationship between
> NetworkManager and the recently (blog) announced netapplet from Novell.
> Is there a plan for linking these two together? Does that even make
> sense? Do they duplicate anything?

Amongst other things, the Ximian guys designed the netapplet to work 
inside the notification area instead of being a panel applet. This means 
that it should also work under KDE, which is what Novell's distro, SuSe, 
has most of its user base using.

I've tried both, and I don't know about how the NetworkManager will do 
things, but currently the netapplet saves things like WEP keys inside 
the Gnome keyring. On the other hand, NetworkApplet uses DBUS/HAL, which 
is the way to go these days.

At the moment, NetworkManager seems a little less complete to me, but 
I'm sure it will get there soon. Currently, both are glitchy on any 
distribution the maintainers do not run.

I don't think the projects would combine very well, though they both use 
the design of a daemon/client model.

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--Pat