Re: running gnome applet as stand alone application

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 22:46 -0500, James M. Leddy wrote:
> Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > 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 :)
> >   
> 
> I started on something I'm calling nm-cli. 
> http://nm-cli.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nm-cli/
> 
> I'm using it right now for default ethernet, and it doesn't work too 
> well, but I'll be adding to it as I figure out how to create the client 
> side dbus connections and stuff.  It's mostly just nm-applet on the 
> backend with an option parser.  With regard to documentation, is anyone 
> accepting patches for such a thing (the client side libraries at least)?

Sure!  Ideally whatever format glib uses for docs.  Or whatever.  As
long as it's consistent.

dan