RE: Future development of nm-applet

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb 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!
Is this speaking of network-manager-applet or something else called nm-applet that could be used with gtk and 
a non-gnome window manager like fluxbox, flwm, etc?