Re: Moving Applets (was: Fish in GNOME Panel)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 01:34 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:05 +0200, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> > Isn't netstatus made obsolete by NetworkManager?
> > 
> > Are there any plans to include NetworkManager into 2.14?
> 
> nm-applet is a misnomer of a name, however nm-notification-icon sounds
> less cool I imagine. I had considered implementing the D-BUS API inside
> GNOME-Netstatus, but haven't even found the time to look into what would
> be required to make that a reality.

It could be an applet (and it would be fairly easy to make it so), but
you can't add an applet automatically from a program. When
NetworkManager is started, the session bus would start up nm-applet. If
it was a real GNOME panel applet, you couldn't add it to the panel
automatically. But you can do so with a notification area icon.

As for making gnome-netstatus use NetworkManager to know which device to
track, I've already filed a bug some time ago:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313653

It should be fairly easy to add, using libnm-glib, the glib convenience
library for NetworkManager. See the Epiphany patch Christian made for
example:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311634

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>