On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 14:48 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >> ----- 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... > > Now I'm thinking about this, IIRC anaconda depends on it, so even if you > remove the dep from GNOME itself, live installs will still have it > present after installation. You can remove anaconda post-install, but > most people don't. It probably should remove itself and other stuff like "livesys.service" after install. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
