NetworkManager and nm-aplet placement

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:57 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:27 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > Why is nm-applet placed in /usr/libexec? It took me quite a while to
> > find it and run it, as it isn't in $PATH...
> 
> Originally it was actually an applet,
> like /usr/libexec/battstat-applet-2, that should only get run by
> gnome-session, not directly.

	bonobo-activation-server is what runs panel applets, at gnome-panel's
behest.

>   Which is still pretty much the case, its
> not meant to be hand-run after its been added to your session.  It's
> debatable whether or not it should continue to live in /usr/libexec now
> though, since its not a panel applet any more, but a notification icon.

	In order to get it in the session in the first place, you need to run
it (either from the menus with a .desktop file or from the command line)
so it should prolly be in /usr/bin.

Cheers,
Mark.