[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#500119: Better way to avoid both knetworkmanager and nm-applet are started in parallel

PCMan pcman.tw at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 15:04:28 UTC 2008


I agreed with the proposal from Andrew.
That's a really simple and effective solution which won't break anything.
Please refer to the desktop entry spec.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html
The NotShowIn solution, I think, is the best way to solve the problem.
In this way knetwork-manager won't be started in gnome, and nm-applet
won't be started in KDE.
The only pitfall is, if a user install both of them, and runs XFCE,
both of them will be started.
So, you can make nm-applet NotShowIn KDE, and make knetwork-manager
OnlyShowIn KDE.
I this way, KDE only starts knetwork-manager, and other desktpo
environments, such as XFCE and LXDE, can start nm-applet.
There are no clashes, and all users will be very happy.
After all, nm-applet is not a gnome-specific program at all even when
it has 'gnome' in its package name.
The only gnome things it uses are PolicyKit and keyring.
So, it's very suitable for other desktops, too.

Please let this bug be fixed. We users from desktop environments other
than KDE and GNOME really need this.





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