Hi, Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> skribis:
> It seems like all GNOME users are ready for this change. I tried it out > locally and it's quite nice. Patch like this: > > diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm > index 0509bd8a4..f12fe78e5 100644 > --- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm > +++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm > @@ -810,7 +810,8 @@ with the administrator's password." > > ;; The D-Bus clique. > (avahi-service) > - (wicd-service) > + (service network-manager-service-type) > + (service wpa-supplicant-service-type) > (udisks-service) > (upower-service) > (accountsservice-service) For GNOME it’s definitely better than Wicd. > The network manager command also seems to include `nmtui' for a > curses-based interface, and `nmcli' for a command-line interface. I > don't know if there's an applet or something like that, but of course > that could be installed as part of the xfce-desktop-service package. > Seems to me like network manager could be a good default for Guix > desktop systems. I went as far as switching to NM on my GNOME-less laptop. ;-) nmtui works well for me, and overall NM works better than Wicd (it reconnects more reliably and more quickly to wireless networks AFAICS.) A GTK+ interface to NM similar to that of Wicd (i.e., not the GNOME applet) would also be welcome; does anyone know of such a thing? Overall, NM seems to work better than Wicd, whether or not one uses GNOME. Even if the issue Chris Marusich mentioned still applies, I think switching to NM in ‘%desktop-services’ would be a net win. Are there objections to this? Ludo’.
