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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 12.04.2015 um 15:15 schrieb 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 ?

Afair, nm-applet was still autostarted for by gnome-shell to provide the
VPN auth dialogs/secrets. I don't think this is the case anymore today,
but I'm not totally sure. [1] indicates that it is no longer necessary.

The commit message also says, that nm-applet is no longer autostarted
under GNOME Shell, which apparently is false.

So maybe this an oversight by upstream.

CCing Dan and Pavel for their input.

Michael

[1]
https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=4473e6a48fcfda1d87d4a4bc9f5c0589235dcfe0
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