On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 18:35 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 12.04.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Jérémy Lal: > > Package: network-manager-gnome > > Version: 0.9.10.0-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > In a gnome-shell session, i see that "nm-applet" is automatically > > started, indeed by the fact network-manager-gnome installs > > /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop. > > However, this program is apparently not used at all by gnome-shell, > > and not even accessible when started. > > > > So i question two things here: > > > > * why it is a dependency of gnome though it is not needed in the > > default gnome-shell session ? > > * shouldn't network-connection-editor be in a separate package, > > allowing one to install it without autostarting nm-applet ? > > Afair, nm-applet was still autostarted for by gnome-shell to provide the > VPN auth dialogs/secrets. I don't think this is the case anymore today, > but I'm not totally sure. [1] indicates that it is no longer necessary.
GNOME autostart was disabled by d6ffe34dc092926fb949449c182e8f27722b6b8b (2013-07-29) and then the shell watcher code was reworked and autostart was re-enabled by e192e83c1aa136512a9d4f026f81677799af8127 (2013-10-10). So yeah, it's re-autostarted now, and I guess that should be disabled. GNOME Shell has handled VPN auth dialogs since version 3.4 or something like that (almost 3 years old). I've committed a change to the applet's git master to disable autostart again. On the subject of splitting nm-connection-manager from nm-applet in packages, yes, I'd recommend that. I would have 3 packages generated from the network-manager-applet git repo: nm-applet nm-connection-editor libnm-gtk libnma (replacement for libnm-gtk for NM 1.1+, no dbus-glib deps) Dan > The commit message also says, that nm-applet is no longer autostarted > under GNOME Shell, which apparently is false. > > So maybe this an oversight by upstream. > > CCing Dan and Pavel for their input. > > Michael > > [1] > https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=4473e6a48fcfda1d87d4a4bc9f5c0589235dcfe0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org