[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#995119: LXDE: switch network management from connman to network-manager?

[Holger Wansing]

Package: lxde
Severity: wishlist


Hi LXDE people,

looking at #988696 and #994875, I would like to ask, if you would be fine
with switching the main desktop network-management tool away from connman to
network-manager.

The main reasons are connman-gtk's lack of a system-tray icon (so users are not
easily aware of the existence of the tool) and some basically missing 
features [1].

It seems that network-manager is considered as the quasi-standard tool for
network management these days, so question is, if you have some strong ambitions
on using connman.
LXDE being a light-weighted desktop environment, I guess a main point will be
the disk-space and memory footprint, and currently this would be indeed an
issue, since the installation of network-manager on top of a current LXDE
installation uses 39 MB of additional disk space.

(However, it was already proposed by a network-manager maintainer, that the
used disk space could be reduced by 8,5 MB via the creation of a 
network-manager-l10n package or even more by the splitt-off of some plugin 
modules into separate packages [2].)



Technically such switch from connman to network-manager could be done just by
a swapping in a Recommends: line for the lxde package:

- connman-gtk | network-manager-gnome | wicd
+ network-manager-gnome | connman-gtk | wicd


What do you think?

Holger



[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988696#106
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988696#96

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