I haven't tried running gnome-control-center lately without NetworkManager running (and I'm not very interested in doing it now :) ).
GNOME is probably not interested at all in the usability of gnome- control-center without NetworkManager. On the other hand, there is a 3.30 proposal to hide panels if the hardware isn't present so maybe at least Wi-Fi would be hidden. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770673 Title: Don't have gnome-control-center require network-manager-gnome Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in gnome-control-center source package in Bionic: Triaged Bug description: Impact ------ Some people want to run a GNOME system without network-manager. Although I believe that's not really officially supported by Canonical/Ubuntu, we don't need to make things more difficult than needed for people that want to try that. Therefore, we're dropping the Depends to a Recommends which aligns us better with Debian since the major bug requiring it to be a Depends seems to be fixed now. Test Case ---------- Install the updates Uninstall network-manager-gnome. Ensure that ubuntu-desktop and gnome-control-center are still installed. Regression Potential -------------------- The Wi-Fi and Network panels probably will not work if NetworkManager is not installed and running. Original Bug Report ------------------- The version of gnome-control-center in Ubuntu 18.04 now has a hard dependency on network-manager-gnome. This didn't used to be the case (in Ubuntu 16.04), and isn't the case for the Debian version of basically the same package (gnome-control- center_3.28.1-1_*.deb) - https://packages.debian.org/buster/gnome- control-center As there are many cases where network manager does more harm than good to a Linux PC, not being able to change any Gnome settings if you remove network manager seems a bit unfair. Is there a good reason why this is a hard dependency in the Ubuntu 18.04 version of this package? Required information: 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release: 18.04 2) The version of the package you are using: gnome-control-center_3.28.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1770673/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
