Re: Plans for 2.20

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 17:11 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
<snip>
> > Maybe showing a list of the known NetworkManager networks, with the
> > ability to remove some of them, as well as VPN configurations.
> > 
> good idea, although that would, somewhat, clash with nm-applet. But I
> guess it doesn't harm to have the same thing accessed from 2 places (and
> not everyone will run nm-applet)

nm-applet doesn't know how to list the known networks, or remove some of
them. The proxy setup could also be per-network, or (and I'd like Calum
to explain to use the use-cases of proxies), be only enabled if a
certain network is used. Ie.

Only use proxy if connected through:
    [ Always           ]
    | Wired connection ]
    | Network A        |
    | My wireless net  |

<snip>
> > > I was thinking on structuring the different subsystems in g-s-d to be
> > > more pluggable. That would allow 3rd party apps to install modules to be
> > > started with g-s-d. That would help in cleaning up the code, quite messy
> > > in some places right now. What do you think?
> > 
> > I think it's already hard to control what each part of g-s-d does while
> > all the code is available to us. Using another daemon (similar to KDE's
> > daemon-pluggable daemon) would be a better idea.
> > 
> well, that's what I suggest g-s-d to become, see attached doc.

As long as it'd separate binaries, I wouldn't have any problems with it.
We still need to fix the over-usage of gdk_window_add_filter. It's
currently (on top of my head), the accessibility bits, the multimedia
keys, the custom keyboard bindings, and DrWright (typing break).

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>