network manager applet in kubuntu

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Thursday 25 March 2010 04:18:02 am Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2010 11:28:10 pm Alan Dacey Sr.'s cat walking on the
> 
> keyboard wrote:
> > Did you try wicd?  I read about it on this list for a while now and never
> > needed it until yesterday.  I have a new build with a wireless PCI card
> > that was advertised to work out of the box in Ubuntu.  Network Manager
> > couldn't even find it.  I installed wicd and it magically worked at full
> > strength. sudo apt-get install wicd
> 
> Yes, it works fine, but again it is a gtk program. Is it possible that
> while gnome has a lot of integrated network managers, kde does not have
> one that works? I guess this could be a limitation in the adoption of
> kde-based systems and if Ubuntu has made really simple the adoption of
> Linux, Kubuntu should try to do the same.
> 
> Luca

I totally agree with you.  KDE does not have a quality app to handle network 
connections.
<ot_rant>
Knetwork manager works most of the time but has problems with some things.  It 
can't even do a vpn connection.  At.  All.  That really sucks.  Kpackagekit 
still cannot pull in all the dependencies every time - how can something that 
works flawlessly in the apt... packages break?  Isn't the code (or the logic of 
the code) there to see?  Why not use it?  I could go on, but I won't
</ot_rant>



-- 
Alan

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