Package: dhcpcd-gtk
Version: 0.6.0-1.1+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I view that the Raspbgerry Pi Desktop is using a solution for the wifi
connection that is simple, lightweight and works well. It is using dhcpcd +
wpasupplicant + a custom lxpanel plugin derived from dhcpcd-gtk. I want to try
this solution in my laptop.
But installed dhcpcd, wpasupplicant and dhcpcd-gtk, and setting up all of them,
I was a problem with the icon in my panel. Dhcpcd-gtk was working OK more or
less, I could select a wifi and put it's passphrase, change to another one,
goes wired. But the icon and the menu in the panel was looking ugly. In the
wifi selection menu there was'nt a "v" icon to show the selected wifi, and
there was'nt to the icon indicating the wifi "strength"...
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I see that in the upstream web page there is a new version 0.7.7, and in ubuntu
repository there is too a 0.7.5 version. I install the ubuntu one, and the
problem goes away. Now the app looks correct and is working best.
You can see that in the debian package there are only 11 icons for each icon
size:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/dhcpcd-gtk/filelist
But in ubuntu there are 18:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/amd64/dhcpcd-common/filelist
* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?
So, for the package to works OK in Debian, you need to package the last version
of the upstream code. I compile it with the Ubuntu's debian source dir, and
both dhcpcd-gtk and dhcpcd-qt are working OK now.
For compile it with qt5, I pass the variable: export QT_SELECT=qt5, as said
here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1071520-start-0.html
For me, this is the most simple and lightweight solution for setup wifi in a
laptop. I think that this good package need to be in Debian in good shape.
Thanks in advance. Greetings.
PD: I do'nt made the above probes in this computer, so the following settings
and packages are not the correct ones.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-4.1-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=eu_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=eu_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=eu_ES:eu:es_ES:es:en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to
/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dhcpcd-gtk depends on:
pn dhcpcd-dbus <none>
ii libc6 2.29-10
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.62.4-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-4
ii libnotify4 0.7.8-1
dhcpcd-gtk recommends no packages.
dhcpcd-gtk suggests no packages.
