Re: Future development of nm-applet

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 09:13 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear NetworkManager folks,
>
>
> I am excited for the 1.0 release! Before that happens a small question.
>
> NetworkManager is a GNOME project, could you please clarify what the
> future of the applet is now that GNOME Shell provides an “applet”(?)
> themselves?

NM is actually more of a freedesktop.org project, but we just happen to
use a lot of the GNOME infrastructure because it's a pain to change
everything over (especially bugzilla!).

But anyway, the GNOME desktop will continue to use and develop the GNOME
Shell network indicator and control center network panel, because they
are a much better fit for the UI and interaction design of the GNOME
Shell.

However, we (the NetworkManager project) intend to continue to maintain
nm-applet and nm-connection-editor as standalone components that other
GTK-based desktops like LXDE and XFCE can use.  While nm-applet is
clearly receiving less attention than it has in the past, it's not going
to die.

If anyone is interested in helping maintain the applet, or implement new
features, or make it look slicker, please start sending patches and
cleanups!

Dan