[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#500119: Bug#500119: network-manager-gnome: allow autostart in non-[GNOME|GTK] desktop environments

[Michael Biebl]

severity 500119 wishlist
tags 500119 wontfix
thanks

Paul Menzel wrote:
> Subject: network-manager-gnome: allow autostart in non-[GNOME|GTK] desktop environments
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 0.6.6-2
> Severity: normal
> 
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> 
> Dear DDs,
> 
> 
> On a different machine I am using lxde [1] and want to use
> network-manager-gnome. Unfortunately the setting in the .desktop file
> prevent it from being autostarted [2].
> 
> *Important note: Sometimes, some gnome applications has
> "OnlyShowIn=GNOME" key in their *.desktop files (For example, nm-applet
> of Network Manager). That key means, only load this application in
> GNOME. So, that's why they won't be loaded in other desktop
> environments. Actually, most of those applications can work well under
> other desktops, but for no good reason they arbitrarily claim that they
> are GNOME-only. Don't forget to check this key if you cannot get an
> application automatically started even its desktop file is already in
> the autostart directory. If that's the cause, file bug reports for that
> applications to its author and packager, if it's not really
> GNOME-specific. *NOTE* NetworkManager Applet works fine, just comment
> out or delete "OnlyShowIn=Gnome" in your
> ~/.config/autostart/nm-applet.desktop . [2]
> 
> Could you please remove this line from [3] although it is called -gnome.
> I guess somebody who wants to run a different network management tool
> would not install network-manager-gnome in the first place.
> 
> 

Hi Paul,

what if you have both network-manager-gnome and network-manager-kde
installed.

Do you really want that both knetworkmanager and nm-applet are started
in parallel?

OnlyShowIn=Gnome doesn't mean, that autostart is not allowed in another
desktop environment, just disabled by default, for the above reasons, to
avoid clashing of apps.

KDE and GNOME are the major desktops so imho it makes sense to optimize
for the common case.

I don't think your proposal is a good idea, so tagged as wontfix.

Cheers,
Michael
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