Netapplet

[Nadeem Bitar]

Dan,

I do not like the layout and the icons. Also I like that with netapplet
I can quickly access my connection information and I am able to
configure my network settings if netdaemon wasn't able to do it for me.
I also like that I have access to both my wired and wireless interfaces.
Basically, I would love to have the technical feature of NetworkManager 
working with netapplet. 

Nadeem

On 月, 2004-10-25 at 09:23 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Nadeem,
> 
> Yes, its still evolving, and most-current releases are certainly much
> better than the ones that came before.  What specific things don't you
> like about the UI?  We're still not quite sure we like the layout of the
> menu in NetworkManagerNotification, and we're quite open to
> suggestions...
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:08 -0700, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
> > Dan,
> > 
> > even though NetworkManager seems technically superior to netapplet,
> > netapplet has a nicer user interface and works for me. I had problems
> > with NetworkManager and had it fail many times especially when i switch
> > from a wired to a wireless connection. Also I am not sure where to get
> > the applet. I hope that NetworkManger would evolve into a powerful
> > network management tool and not be as buggy as neat, which always had
> > problems with multiple profiles. If you look at the archives you would
> > find me waiting since redhat 8.0 for an easy network configuration tool
> > and having either NetworkManger or netapplet/netdaemon work would be
> > great. 
> > 
> > FYI:
> > rpm -qa |grep NetworkManager
> > NetworkManager-0.3.1-1
> > NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.1-1
> > 
> > Nadeem
> > 
> > On 日, 2004-10-24 at 20:40 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
> > > > Please include the netapplet[1] in FC3.
> > > >  I have spent the last few hours trying to compile it myself and install
> > > > it with no success. For mobile users who change network settings two
> > > > times a day or more, this applet is a must.
> > > 
> > > Nadeem,
> > > 
> > > netapplet won't get in FC3 for a few reasons...
> > > 
> > > 1) FC3 is already locked.  No new things are going in, and only critical 
> > > bugfixes make the cut.
> > > 
> > > 2) We're moving to NetworkManager 
> > > (http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager).  NM uses dbus and exposes 
> > > a rich network information and control interface to userspace 
> > > applications, much more than netapplet does.  What NM doesn't do that 
> > > netapplet does right now is support dialup connections, but in the near 
> > > future we hope that's a possiblity.  Except for dialup, NetworkManager 
> > > does everything that netapplet does, and alows user applications like 
> > > Evolution, Firefox, etc to know about the network state (like offline 
> > > mode, for example).  It also automatically switches network interfaces if 
> > > desired, so that when you dock your laptop for example, it will switch to 
> > > the wired interface automatically.
> > > 
> > > 3) There really isn't a place for more than 1 wireless applet, and we had 
> > > 3 to choose from (gnome-applets one, NetworkManager, and netapplet)
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > 
> > 
>