Hi Simon On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:10:45 +0100 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
Control: retitle -1 gnome-core should recommend network-manager instead of network-manager-gnomeOn Sat, 18 May 2024 at 11:29:32 +0200, inasprecali wrote: > Now, nm-applet is, ironically, useless in a vanilla GNOME desktop with no > extensions, since GNOME hasn't had tray icon support in quite a few years, > including the gnome-core parckage in bookworm (1:43+1). I agree nm-applet is useless on a pure GNOME system. > The other tool, nm-connection-editor, merely duplicates functionality > that is already present in the built-in gnome-control-center. It isn't 100% duplication: I think nm-connection-editor exposes some more advanced features that are not in gnome-control-center (similar to the difference between gnome-control-center and gnome-tweaks). But that seems more like something for the "big" gnome metapackage, or a Suggests, or both.
The name of the network-manager-gnome package is indeed a bit misleading nowadays. Thus for some time I contemplated splitting up the package (similar to how Fedora has done) into network-manager-applet and nm-connection-editor. The former would contain the nm-applet binary, the latter nm-connection-editor.
network-manager-gnome would become a transitional metapackage depending on both.
Desktop environments which already provide an applet/tray could then skip installing network-manager-applet and opt into installing nm-connection-editor only (for its advanced functionality).
Is this something the GNOME team would make use of? WDYT? Michael
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