[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#782455: network-manager-gnome: autostarted but not needed by gnome-shell ?

[Jérémy Lal]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.10.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

In a gnome-shell session, i see that "nm-applet" is automatically
started, indeed by the fact network-manager-gnome installs
/etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop.
However, this program is apparently not used at all by gnome-shell,
and not even accessible when started.

So i question two things here:

* why it is a dependency of gnome though it is not needed in the
  default gnome-shell session ?
* shouldn't network-connection-editor be in a separate package,
  allowing one to install it without autostarting nm-applet ?

Regards,
Jérémy.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.16-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.12.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-17
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0                            3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                  1.4.0-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1                              0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-gtk0                                   0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18-1+b1
ii  network-manager                              0.9.10.0-7
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                   3.14.0-1+b1
ii  iso-codes                       3.57-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info  20140317-1
ii  notification-daemon             0.7.6-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

-- no debconf information