DSD: Let me know when it's in an 11.3 (or later) build, and I'd be more than happy to test the avahi 169.x.x.x assignment to ethernet, and the USB modem dialling functions. Those were sometimes a little iffy for persistence in Sugar, and when swapping from Gnome to Sugar and back.
Cheers, KG On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Sascha Silbe <si...@activitycentral.com> > wrote: > >> NetworkManager 0.8 and below already supported system connections, so > >> it's not so much a shift as getting rid of one of two options. It might > >> be a good intermediate step to switch to NM 0.8 + system connections > >> (the original plan of SL#1884 [1]). > > > > True, but Sugar never manipulated the system connections or displayed > > them (except for ethernet). You are right in saying that the changes > > aren't too invasive though. > > > >> With my Dextrose hat on, I'd like to see us move to NM 0.9 for the next > >> release. With my Sugar hat on, I'm worried about large changes > >> introducing a lot of regressions, like with Telepathy. While moving to > >> system connections is large enough to be of concern itself, the > >> additional changes required for NM 0.9 increase the risk (though I'm not > >> sure by how much). > > > > What do you mean by "next release"? Sugar 0.96? > > > > Also, which additional changes are you referring to? > > > > I made quite a lot of progress over the weekend in getting NM-0.9 > > supported. Like in 0.8 we do not take advantage of much of what NM can > > do, and we have some issues that get carried over from before, but in > > simply maintaining the existing functionality it seems quite low risk > > so far. > > do you have a nm09 git branch somewhere? > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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