Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 15:45 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le lundi 17 septembre 2007 �4:55 +0200, Denis Washington a �it :
> 
> > > * Network capplet. Not sure if this is redundant or not, it is for sure
> > > on opensuse, where you have NetworkManager, but other distros don't use
> > > it, so, what to do? If kept, we should think about adding more stuff to
> > > it (like what there is in network-admin from gnome-system-tools) or just
> > > rename it to Proxy, which sounds quite bad.
> > 
> > Ubuntu also uses NetworkManager and others will probably follow, so we
> > might be able to assume it's availability by time GNOME 2.22 is
> > released. The best would be if it would be made a GNOME dependency.
> 
> Please, don't add this as hard dependency. Mandriva doesn't ship NM and
> has no plan to ship it in the future.

Why? (Building the network proxy capplet could also be made optional, so
that systems not using NM can still make use of it.)

Cheers,
Denis