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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.04.2015 um 16:42 schrieb 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.

No, I meant the old, gnome-panel/metacity based GNOME3 fallback
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback
Not sure, how much love this still get's today and if it's worth caring
for it.
I just mentioned, because notfication-daemon (which was traditionally
started in that fallback/flashback session) has

OnlyShowIn=LXDE;OPENBOX;GNOME;
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome


>>> 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.

Ok, good to know.


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