[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#500119: Bug#500119: network-manager-gnome: allow autostart in non-[GNOME|GTK] desktop environments

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Michael,


Am Donnerstag, den 25.09.2008, 11:46 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl:

> what if you have both network-manager-gnome and network-manager-kde
> installed.
> 
> Do you really want that both knetworkmanager and nm-applet are started
> in parallel?

Is that such a common situation?

> OnlyShowIn=Gnome doesn't mean, that autostart is not allowed in another
> desktop environment, just disabled by default, for the above reasons, to
> avoid clashing of apps.
> 
> KDE and GNOME are the major desktops so imho it makes sense to optimize
> for the common case.
> 
> I don't think your proposal is a good idea, so tagged as wontfix.

Ok, than please at least add this to README.Debian.


Can you think of another solution. Make a generic package

network-manager-gtk

and than network-manager-gnome and network-manager-lxde where just
the .desktop file differs?


Thanks,

Paul
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