Re: Interfacing with NetworkManagerUserSettings

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 16:34 -0800, Greg Suarez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a program to manage wifi profiles and wish to communicate
> the Connection objects to the NetworkManager.
> I can't seem to find documentation on the communication between the
> NetworkManager the the program providing the user settings.
> Can someone point me to where I can get this information or describe
> what I need to do?

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec-08.html

you're looking for anything that starts with:

org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings

Both the system settings and user settings services implement this D-Bus
interface.  Essentially, your program needs to respond to the
ListConnections method with an array of the object paths of it's
Connection objects.  Then it also implements the GetSettings method for
each of those connection objects so NM can get the actual connection
details.  You'll also want to implement the .Secrets interface there so
that NM can get network passwords.  Let me know if more you need more
explanation.

Dan