FS#6621 - Network managment

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Urs Wolfer (uwolfer) - Sunday, 18 March 2007, 12:18 GMT
Last edited by James Rayner (iphitus) - Sunday, 16 December 2007, 01:45 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

You probably already heard of Solid, the KDE 4 hardware backend. In order to support that in Arch, we need to decide between two possible solutions:

1) Switch over to NetworkManager. There is already a package for it and I'm using it for a longer time already. It works fine.
2) Provide a Solid backend for the network part. Since we are using another network configuration as almost every other dist, that means we need to develop such a backend by our own.

This job is not really urgent, but we need to think about it as soon as possible. I'm at your service as a KDE developer for future questions;)
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Closed by  James Rayner (iphitus)
Sunday, 16 December 2007, 01:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Comment by Ravi (ravster) - Sunday, 06 May 2007, 03:09 GMT
Just curious, what will be the effect of using the Network Manager on users who don't use KDE? For example, how will this affect a XFCE/IceWM/anything-else user?
Comment by Urs Wolfer (uwolfer) - Sunday, 06 May 2007, 12:26 GMT
I know that Gnome for example does also provide a interface for networkmanager. No idea about others...
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Sunday, 24 June 2007, 23:02 GMT
KDE has Knetworkmanager.
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Sunday, 16 December 2007, 01:45 GMT
As it is, I don't see any need to do anything yet. If people want to use wireless in KDE we already have networkmanager.

If someone wants to contribute an Arch specific backend to solid, they're free to.

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