<div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/8 J. Anthony Limon <<a href="mailto:j@flippo.net">j@flippo.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Network Manager is a tricky topic so I'll try to make this as unbiased as possible. WICD offers a solid replacement to NetworkManager while keeping almost all the features. The only thing I can think of that would keep someone from switching outright is that Network Manager has built-in VPN support. After a poll of some sort we could then decide if we also needed to ship a VPN client by default. Also, since the next release is LTS it might make sense to wait to make the switch as going from NetworkManager to WICD is as easy as apt-get --purge autremove networkmanager - J</blockquote><div> Despite the fact that I'm myself using wicd in one of my computers, there is a slight difference between wicd and networkmanager that we may not forget: the quality of the GUI. I've rarely seen an app with a GUI as unwelcoming and badly designed as wicd, even though it has a great backend. I think nm does the job in 99% of the cases, so switching to something that is harder to learn and use is not, in my opinion, a good idea at all for an end-user distribution. -- </div></div>Steve Dodier Student at École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges Free Software Developer OpenPGP : 1B6B1670