Re: can't disable notification bubbles in nm-applet, or configure at all

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 09:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> J. F. Ryder wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running Intrepid with the default NM setup.  I have had no luck trying
> > to configure the applet at all; in particular, I'd like to stop the repeated
> > "pop-ups" every time a network disconnects or connects.  Since the icon
> > changes shape to indicate connectivity, and I can easily hover over it,
> > these are superfluous as well as incredibly annoying.  But the only menu
> > options it seems to offer pertain to managing the connections.
> > 
> > I've found no help from documentation.  There's no man page for nm-applet.
> > nm-applet --help just starts it up!  In fact, so far as I can tell all
> > command line options are completely ignored.  By googling around I found
> > descriptions of nm-applet command-line options, but it's clear they don't
> > work; I can only imagine this is for another version.
> > 
> > I've read every man page I can find on NetworkManager, and it describes
> > virtually no configuration options at all.  nm-tool --help also just runs
> > nm-tool.  As another example, I'd like some control over whether a
> > connection goes onto the "Auto" list, but apparently it puts it there as
> > soon as I connect once.
> > 
> > I hope this is the right mailing list for this question.
> 
> There has been a bug report against 0.6 (with a patch), which allows to
> disable the popups [1], [2].
> 
> The patch would have to be updated for 0.7.
> 
> Dan, what do you think about that? Would you be ok with such a patch?

Bug updated, but with the right patch yes.  Should go just above
"About..." in the right-click menu.

Dan