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by Thomas on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @03:14

I'm especially interested in the network manager thingy. Is this going to replace knetworkmanager as a kind of "reincarnation" as a Plasma-applet? Will it be based on Solid? Does it provide a Plasma engine which can be used by other applets? Or is it directly based on natworkmanager/dbus/HAL ?

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Re: network manager
by sebas on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @10:31

possibly, yes, yes, no :-)

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Re: network manager
by kde on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @12:41

So it will be

Plasmoid --> Plasma engine -> Solid --> NetworkManager ?

Very nice indeed. You'll get like a thousand places to feed the bugs.
Happy hunting.

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Re: network manager
by Anon on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @12:47

4 <<< "a thousand".

Also, most of these places are very thin wrappers and unlikely to introduce many bugs - NetworkManager will do the "heavy-lifting".

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Re: network manager
by sebas on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @16:54

But you'll have less bugs since you have less duplicated code and more of that well-tested. It's also easy to use networky features on other platforms without rewriting your plasmoid. Using networkmanager is right now the backend for 'networky' stuff used on Linux, though the plasmoid doesn't need to care about that, thanks to Solid. With solidshell, it's easy to find out where it's going wrong.

Of course no one keeps you from just porting knetworkmanager, if that works better for you.

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Re: network manager
by Vide on Tuesday 25/Mar/2008, @05:03

Sure, if your wifi chipset cannot connect to WPA network you'll have to hunt the bug in Plasma, sure.
Be realistic, troll.

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Re: network manager
by Christopher Blauvelt on Monday 24/Mar/2008, @13:05

It could be a replacement for knetworkmanager but it doesn't have to be. The dataengine is based on Solid. Use cases for other apps include verification of network status and network usage stats.

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