[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#988696: No network management in LXDE task

[Holger Wansing]

Control: retitle -1 LXDE: Please include a user-friendly network management tool
Control: tags -1 + patch


[ Returning back to #988696 as the correct bug for this issue; dropping 994875 from CC ]

Jaycee Santos <jlsantos at protonmail.com> wrote (Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:42:05 +0000):
> On Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 at 1:05 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> > Am 23.09.21 um 21:35 schrieb Jaycee Santos:
> > >  Is there a reason why to choose gnome-network-manager over something like
> > >  nm-tray for LXDE?
> >
> > I think nm-tray (being based on Qt5) is a reasonable choice for LXQT (which is also Qt5 based). LXDE on the other hand uses GTK, so I think network-manager-gnome is a better fit there. (both disk footprint and memory usage wise)
> 
> Ah. My apologies. I thought nm-applet was provided by nm-tray. I was wrong.
> I did not know that nm-applet was part of network-manager-gnome!
> 
> So I agree with network-manager-gnome being a better fit for LXDE.

Regarding LXQT: this DE already installs cmst by default (an Qt based
GUI for connman, which also has a system tray icon), and since there were
no complains so far from LXQT users related to the network management tool 
used, I would not touch LXQT for this.


A patch to address this issue for LXDE is attached.

Holger



diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 148cd82d..f4fba03e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 tasksel (3.69) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Install CUPS for all *-desktop tasks, now that task-print-service is no
     longer existing. Closes: #993668
+  * Install network-manager-gnome in LXDE environment. Closes: #988696
 
  -- Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org>  Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:20:05 +0200
 
 tasksel (3.68) unstable; urgency=medium
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1f469e86..ec6ced7e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -208,34 +208,36 @@ Package: task-lxde-desktop
 Architecture: all
 Description: LXDE
  This task package is used to install the Debian desktop, featuring
  the LXDE desktop environment, and with other packages that Debian users
  expect to have available on the desktop.
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
 	task-desktop,
 	lightdm,
 	lxde,
 Recommends:
 	lxtask,
 	lxlauncher,
 	xsane,
 # libreoffice widgets using just gtk, and also accessibility needs the GTK frontend
 	libreoffice-gtk3,
 # Package management.
 	synaptic,
+# desktop network setup
+	network-manager-gnome,
 # libreoffice is the best word processor / office suite at the moment
 	libreoffice-writer,
 	libreoffice-calc,
 	libreoffice-impress,
 # make help menu work
 	libreoffice-help-en-us,
 # make thesaurus work
 	mythes-en-us,
 # make spellchecker work
 	hunspell-en-us,
 # make hyphenation work
 	hyphen-en-us,
 # gui for configuration of the print service
 	system-config-printer,
 # orca works with lxde, adding accessibility
 	orca,
 




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