Re: Control Center App vs nm-connection-editor

[Simon Geard <delgarde ihug co nz>]

On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 09:52 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> In addition to what Pavel said, the GNOME Control Center makes some
> choices about the UI design and what to include and what to leave out
> that are quite appropriate for the GNOME design and target audience.
> Same for KDE.  nm-connection-editor exists to expose most options (but
> not necessarily all of them) in a more complicated form, and is intended
> to be either a parallel tool to each desktop's preferred settings
> panels, or a standalone one for desktops that don't have any other
> settings editor.

One thing I noted the other day is that the Gnome UI doesn't support
setting up connection sharing (i.e configuring the machine as a gateway,
running a DHCP server, etc. Had to resort to nm-connection-editor for
that.

Simon.