From: Ross V. <ro...@ka...> - 2007-07-15 18:33:22
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 11:15:45AM -0700, Daniel Patterson wrote: > Using any Gnome daemon ties in gnome dependencies Nope. NetworkManager is designed to be agnostic to any particular environment. KDE uses it for it's backend as well. From my box: ross@alleria:~$ apt-cache depends network-manager network-manager Depends: libc6 Depends: libdbus-1-3 Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2 Depends: libgcrypt11 Depends: libglib2.0-0 Depends: libgpg-error0 Depends: libhal1 Depends: libiw28 Depends: libnl1-pre6 Depends: libnm-util0 Depends: iproute Depends: iputils-arping Depends: dhcdbd Depends: lsb-base Depends: wpasupplicant Depends: dbus Depends: hal Depends: ifupdown |Recommends: network-manager-gnome Recommends: <network-manager-kde> knetworkmanager I suppose you might take issue with glib, hal, or dbus, but have fun with lots of things at that point... > not...). if you had a frontend that could bring up network (dhclient or > dhcpcd), or wireless (iwconfig, or wlanconfig), and ppp (pppd), I think > you would have a pretty nice application... though I'm not sure why they > should be integrated, just make three nice separate apps! Because it's awesome to be lazy. I've temporary gone back to Gnome on my laptop explicity because of NetworkManager support. I take my laptop all over town and my network only ever needs to be configured once. It remembers what networks work, and if I plug in the wired ethernet, it doesn't worry about wireless. I'm not sure why you think this is "more trouble than it's worth". It's easy, non-intrusive, and works in all cases I've encountered at work/home/coffee shop. -- Ross Vandegrift ro...@ka... "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 |