KNetworkManager svn 1002781 - Call for testing

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le mercredi 29 juillet 2009 20:07:15, Jonathan Thomas a écrit :
> On Wednesday 29 July 2009 2:03:33 pm Yuriy Kozlov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Thomas<echidnaman at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Riddel's email setup is a bit busted at the moment, so he asked me to
> > > send this one out.
> > >
> > > Our favorite NetworkManager plasma widget developers have decided to
> > > switch primary focus from the plasma widget to a standalone application
> > > called KNetworkManager (sound familiar?) This is a monolithic client
> > > written from scratch, and will probably be what all of our hopes will
> > > rest upon for an un- mangled Network experience in Kubuntu 9.10.
> > >
> > > If you can, we would very much appreciate testing. You can record your
> > > results at
> > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/PlasmaWidgetNetworkManager/0.0+svn1002
> > >78 1-0ubuntu1~ppa1
> > >
> > > That page should have sufficient instructions for the testing.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Jonathan
> >
> > Monolithic client?  Can you clarify?
>
> It's a single application, as compared to a plugin for Plasma like the
> plasma widget.
>
> > It's still just an interface to the NetworkManager daemon right?
>
> Correct.

I guess the networking code is the same, so this won't help people who can't 
connect to some wifi networks. Or do I miss something?

It is a good idea anyway, if only because a plasma crash won't take the 
network with it.

Aurélien