[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#988696: LXDE: Please include a user-friendly network management tool

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

"Amy Kos" <amy at disroot.org> wrote (Sun, 26 Sep 2021 13:03:03 +0000):
> Hi,
> 
> if you want to prefer network-manager, better do it in lxde metapackage
> instead of task-lxde-desktop which depends on the lxde metapackage.
> https://salsa.debian.org/lxde-team/lxde-metapackages/-/blob/debian/debian/control
> For instance change line 44 from
>  connman-gtk | network-manager-gnome | wicd, deluge | transmission-gtk,
> to
>  network-manager-gnome | connman-gtk | wicd, deluge | transmission-gtk,

Yes, I am about preparing a bugreport against lxde, to switch from connman
to network-manager, with exactly that patch proposal :-)

> If you want to keep connman it looks like there is a status icon option:
> https://github.com/jgke/connman-gtk
> > -Duse_status_icon=[true,false]
> > Enable or disable the status icon. Future GTK versions might remove the support for status icons, but as of 3.18 the support is still there, just deprecated.
> 
> By the way, there is a similar feature request for Lxqt too:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=975524

Ok, I will follow up on that one too.


Holger




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