----- Original Message ----- > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 20:04 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote: > > We can't drop it: There are things it does the Network panel can't do. The > > Network panel actually invokes nm-connection-editor in many cases. > > > > Anyway, I do think we should either split the .desktop file to a separate > > subpackage that won't be installed by default, or add a rule in the > > .desktop file saying it shouldn't be shown in GNOME. > > nm-ce is intended to be the "everything" option; it's very > understandable that the GNOME network panel won't necessarily implement > everything that NM can do (for example, Data Center Bridging), so we may > wish to keep it available. That doesn't mean it has to be installed by > default though. > > The panel still uses the editor for 802.1x setup and some advanced stuff > I think. I'm fine with setting "don't show in GNOME", but that would > ideally be either (a) a Fedora specific patch, or (b) if there was some > way to restrict it to GNOME 3.6+ but leave it for GNOME 2.x. In Fedora 20 at least, nm-connection-editor is only to: - edit information about Wi-Fi devices, but we can't actually get to it from anywhere in the UI - Launching an editor for unknown connection types I think we could probably remove the dependency altogether... -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
