Re: Is there going to be a release of network-manager-applet for GNOME 2.18?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 00:39 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 19:16 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Dan Williams wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:38 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> >>>> (cc'ing the NM list)
> >>>>
> >>>> Le vendredi 02 mars 2007, �1:54, Jaap Haitsma a �it :
> >>>>> Something I noticed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The latest release of network manager (applet) is 0.6.4 which is
> >>>>> already something like 9 months. AFAIK there has not been a release
> >>>>> since. Is there going to be a release for 2.18?
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I (and possibly Andre) have pinged NetworkManager people about this.
> >>>> It's definitely important to have a release for 2.18.0. (It would have
> >>>> been great to have a release for the RC too...)
> >>> Yeah; I'll get an applet 0.6.5 release done this week.
> >> What about nm-vpn-properties? See my other email. What's your take on this?
> > 
> > It has not been split out, and is still part of NetworkManager, as are
> > the VPN plugins.  I guess it will be released when a 0.6.5 of NM gets
> > released.
> 
> Well, this is not quite correct. The vpn plugins are in the same svn
> source tree, but they are in a different tarball each (make dist).
> nm-vpn-properties on the contrary is included in the network-manager
> tarball.
> I don't recommend to split the small nm-vpn-properties utility into a
> separate svn tree and tarball but simply move it from network-manager to
> network-manager-applet before 0.6.5 is released.

That's a good point I guess.  The main reason stuff like this didn't
happen was because there wasn't a great need at the time, and there
wasn't a lot of time to make it happen.  But that's not really an
excuse.

What would your proposed directory structure look like after moving the
properties app over?

Dan