Re: ANN: Release of NetworkManager 0.8.996 (0.9.0-beta2)

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 19:51 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 22:07 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> >> Hi Dan,
>> >>
>> >> >> Sorry for the delayed response
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Sugar is the other one that comes to mind. It seems to partially work
>> >> >> if you have a system connection like either a wired ethernet or
>> >> >> connect to a connection using gnome3 and then login to the sugar
>> >> >> interface it partially works. I think the issues are two bits. Firstly
>> >> >> the ability to detect a connection and that its online, secondly
>> >> >> moving the user settings code over to systems code. Any assistance or
>> >> >> patches would be welcome (I'm only new to python), sample code in
>> >> >> python would be useful too (I've only managed to find the anaconda
>> >> >> patch and it's not much use for the use case).
>> >> >
>> >> > Yeah, Sugar would need a patch.  The first part (porting to NM 0.9 for
>> >> > status information) is pretty easy, the second part where Sugar acts as
>> >> > an applet is harder, but actually might be fairly simple with NM 0.9.
>> >> > It's been in the back of my mind for a while, but I haven't gotten
>> >> > around to doing a proof-of-concept even though I wrote a lot of the
>> >> > original code for it 5 years ago :)
>> >>
>> >> I've done the first hack up of a patch (attached) for NM 0.9. Not sure
>> >> if it works as I've not got a wifi based F-15 with me at the moment.
>> >> I'll test it more when I get home from RH summit in the next couple of
>> >> days. In the mean time is it possible for you to provide some feedback
>> >> and advise.
>> >>
>> >> I'm mostly trying to focus on connection status and wired/wireless
>> >> ethernet initially although I've changed some of the GSM based stuff.
>> >> I'm not sure if I've got the GSM/Serial -> Modem changes correct.
>> >>
>> >> Also I'm not sure if I've got the NM_ACTIVE_CONNECTION_STATE* bits
>> >> correct as the .h file upstream only has a 0 error code where the
>> >> Sugar stuff had numbers for each state.
>> >>
>> >>  I've looked at a number of patches but I'm not sure if I've got it
>> >> all right and I might have confused bits of the compat API too. :-/
>> >
>> > Sorry I hadn't gotten around to looking at the Sugar bits yet, but I'll
>> > happily review what you've got so far.
>>
>> I've done minor testing in a VM and it had issues with the move from
>> UserSettings to the new system settings. Would love some help with
>> that and it would be awesome if we could get something that would work
>> for basic wifi into f15.
>
> nm-applet accomplishes that move by checking GConf if it's applet
> "stamp" is a certain value (indicating that import has already been
> performed) and if not, grabs each connection from GConf and calls NM's
> AddConnection() dbus method for each setting.  This happens the first
> time the new applet runs and is transparent for the user; after that the
> connections are system-owned connections.  The applet also does some
> fixup on the "secret flags" for the secrets in each connection, because
> those are in the applet's keyring and we keep them in the user's
> session.  This basically means iterating through each secret in the
> connection and setting the "agent-owned" flag in the setting dict for
> each secret, before calling AddConnection(). Then NM will call the
> registered secret agent and request secrets for that connection, which
> Sugar would pass back just like the old "GetSecrets" call used to work,
> really.

Dan, I can't seem to get it to work and while most of what you write
makes perfect sense with my very basic level of python knowledge and
nm-applet being written in C its well over my head. In short I need
some help.

Peter