FS#58436 - network-manager-applet should have "gnome-keyring" as (optional?) dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by vasya (vasya) - Thursday, 03 May 2018, 10:02 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 03 May 2018, 11:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

"network-manager-applet" should have "gnome-keyring" as (optional?) dependency. Without it, attempting to join a wi-fi password-protected network will fail silently, see for example here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142066



Steps to reproduce:
* install "network-manager-applet", but do not install "gnome-keyring"
* try to join a password-protected network
Expected: password prompt
Actually: silent failure. No indication on what's happening and what's the reason of no connection being established.

Personally, I don't think nm-applet is really useful without prompting for password. So I think we should either change the nm-applet itself (long-term solution), or force ArchLinux package to depend on "gnome-keyring" (short-term solution).
This task depends upon

Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Thursday, 03 May 2018, 11:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#30883   FS#35861   FS#36706   FS#41290   FS#52844   FS#53912   FS#56110 

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