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

[Michael Biebl]

Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Michael,
> 
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 25.09.2008, 11:46 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Is that such a common situation?

According to popcon:

network-manager: 34495
network-manager-applet: 31638
knetworkmanager: 3341

Number of people having both installed is between min 484 and max 3341.

lxde: 188

> 
>> 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.
> 
> Ok, than please at least add this to README.Debian.
> 
> 
> Can you think of another solution. Make a generic package
> 
> network-manager-gtk
> 
> and than network-manager-gnome and network-manager-lxde where just
> the .desktop file differs?

I don't think this would be a viable solution that would justify the
efforts.

If LXDE properly implements the fdo specs and sets a proper desktop
identifier, you could add that to
/etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;LXDE

I have never seen the LXDE identifier before, though.

Cheers,
Michael



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