Hi ykla, Sorry that it has taken so long to respond. I had an email filter incorrectly set and missed your message.
Thanks for the suggestion. The Foundation's laptop project's scope doesn't currently include this functionality, but it's good to hear about what people are looking for from the laptop experience as this can inform any future work that the Foundation commissions. In the meantime, the best place to seek support for new laptop functionality is to attend the Laptop and Desktop Working Group [1] where a list of in-progress community and Foundation laptop work is being maintained, and new items may be added. I hope this helps, Alice. [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/LaptopDesktopWorkingGroup On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM ykla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, FreeBSD lacks proper support for tools such as > NetworkManager, plasma-nm, and nmcli. This has caused a very serious > impact on laptop and desktop users. Switching networks often requires > many command-line steps to complete, which is inconvenient and > unfriendly for daily use. > > At the moment, the only similar software available is > net-mgmt/networkmgr, but unfortunately this tool is almost unusable. > It has many bugs, and its maintenance is not active. > > I sincerely hope that in the future FreeBSD can have a tool similar to > NetworkManager (with GUI integration such as plasma-nm and CLI tools > like nmcli), which would significantly improve the user experience for > laptop and desktop users. > > Thank you very much for your attention. > ykla > >
