nm-applet : Notification Area or Panel Applet ?

[Greg K Nicholson]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:06 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> Phil Housley  wrote on 2006-03-01:  (permalink)
> 
> As far as I can remember the reasons for nm-applet not being an applet:
> * It has to appear as needed, which an applet can't.
And it *should* only appear as needed. At the moment it's present all
the time—I don't think “yes, your wired connection *is* still working as
usual” is noteworthy enough for a notification.