reopen 362962
retitle 362962 Please document that nm-applet needs the "notification area"
applet to appear on the panel [was: Networkmanager is not present in the
gnome-panel applets listing]
thanks
Hello,
it took 15 minutes of head-scratching, running nm-applet manually, reading
manpages etc. before I figured out that you have to add the "notification
area" applet to the panel to see the NetworkManager icon.
Please make this clearer in the documentation! It'd be great if you could
add it in several places:
- Put it in the package description. For example:
Note: The "Notification Area" applet must be running for
the NetworkManager icon to appear on your panel.
- Put it in the nm-applet manpage more clearly - state that you have to
add the "notification area" applet to the panel. The manpage talks about
a "notify-area", but I had no idea so far what that area is, and whether
it was already existent on my desktop.
- Put it in the README.Debian for both network-manager{-gnome,}
The manpage points the user to
/usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian for the information on "how
to add nm-applet in your gnome notify-area", but that file doesn't
discuss installing the applet at all.
Thanks for the great work!
Cheers,
Richard
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