Re: running gnome applet as stand alone application

["Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchinson googlemail com>]

> > Let me start with saying that both NetworkManager and the gnome applet
> > are great, my new installation of Fedora 8 on a Sony Vaio laptop
> > connected to our wireless network instantly. Thanks for all the good
> > work!
> >
> > Now I have gnome running, just to set things up and I use the
> > networkmanager applet but eventually I don't want to use gnome (I have
> > it installed and won't delete it but don't want to run it) but a very
> > simple window manager only. Is there a way to run the applet without
> > gnome? All I would like to have is the same window popping up when you
> > click on the applet in gnome, but now without gnome and without the
> > applet, just the window.
> >
> > Any ideas? By the way, a little documentation wouldn't hurt :)
> >
> >
>
> You are in the same position that I am in.  currently, I'm working on a
> nm-cli similiar to http://code.google.com/p/network-manager-cli/ that
> bobby frank started, but written for the 0.7 interface in C using
> libnm-glib.  I've got some code working but am having a tough time
> understanding settings (for wpa, vpn, wep, ppp).  I think I'll have
> SOMETHING out soon though.  If I have time and that goes well, I might
> write a gui so we'll have nm-cli and nm-gui like wpa_supplicant has.

That's great to hear! If you think I could be of help, let me know,
I'm familiar with C and python although I haven't written any GUI
before other than python's tkinter.