[Bug 704387] [NEW] Network state from connman not followed

[Kalle Valo]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: empathy

Empathy has support for connman, but it can be only enabled during
compilation time with --with-connectivity=connman. Also nm and connman
cannot be enabled at the same time and because of this connman support
in ubuntu is disabled. Connman has a compatibility mode for network-
manager, which can be enabled with '-c' switch, but empathy uses libnm-
glib which does a lot more than just queries the network status and
hence it doesn't work with connman at all.

A better solution is to have a runtime check for connman and nm,
compared to the awkward compile time check used currently. Actually the
easiest might be to remove libnm and connman support altogether from
empathy and instead use network-manager's GetStatus() method and
StatusChanged signal. That way empathy would work with both network-
manager and connman and no recompilation is needed. For example pidgin
works just like this.

empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1 on maverick

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Network state from connman not followed