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

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Dan!

Am 27.04.2015 um 22:00 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 18:35 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 12.04.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Jérémy Lal:
>> 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.
> 
> GNOME autostart was disabled by d6ffe34dc092926fb949449c182e8f27722b6b8b
> (2013-07-29) and then the shell watcher code was reworked and autostart
> was re-enabled by e192e83c1aa136512a9d4f026f81677799af8127 (2013-10-10).
> 
> So yeah, it's re-autostarted now, and I guess that should be disabled.
> GNOME Shell has handled VPN auth dialogs since version 3.4 or something
> like that (almost 3 years old).  I've committed a change to the applet's
> git master to disable autostart again.

I see, that you added GNOME to NotShowIn=
I wonder if using
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome
would be better, so it would still be run e.g. in GNOME flashback?


> On the subject of splitting nm-connection-manager from nm-applet in
> packages, yes, I'd recommend that.  I would have 3 packages generated
> from the network-manager-applet git repo:
> 
> nm-applet

That's currently called network-manager-gnome in Debian/Ubuntu

> nm-connection-editor

We don't split of nm-connection-editor (yet) in Debian. Is there a good
reason to do so? Is the nm-connection-editor binary called from within a
GNOME Shell session?


Michael

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