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

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 07:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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?

Do you mean the 'fallback' session?  If so, that still runs the GNOME
Shell network indicator.

> > 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?

It does get called from the gnome-control-center binary for some
specific configuration cases still.

Dan