l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 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.
There's a 'network-manager-applet' package, already in Guix. I've used
it with Xfce in the past, and it seemed to work well.
>> Seems to me like network manager could be a good default for Guix
>> desktop systems.
Agreed.
> 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.
I think we should do this.
Mark
