[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#531335: Bug#531335: network-manager-gnome: network dies when nm-applet is quit

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu, 2009-06-04 at 00:07 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On mer, 2009-06-03 at 23:53 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> If you want your connection to persist between different user sessions, you
> >> should use a system connection. This even has the benefit that you don't need to
> >> login to have a connection available.
> > 
> > What about temporary cross-user connections? How should I create those? 
> 
> What exactly do you mean by that, i.e. what's the use case for it?
> What about fast user switching or why not simply marking the connection as
> system connection?

Fast-user-switching needs gdm. Shutting down the applet doesn't mean the
connection should be shut down, that's all. Because I might want to
connect and then quit my X session and return to console and still have
net access, even when I'm in a conference or at some friend's, and I'm
not sure it's the purpose of “system connections” (though I don't even
know how to mark a connection as “system”. I use network-manager on that
box with Xfce so I don't have all the GNOME stuff.
> 
> >> I'm closing this bug with the explanation given above. If you don't agree, feel
> >> free to reopen the bug.
> > 
> > I disagree but I think it's worthless to reopen. That's an upstream
> > decision, and they won't change it.
> 
> If there is a valid use case, I can certainly discuss this with upstream.

I'm just wondering about the valid use case of shutting down the
connection and changing the previous behavior.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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