Bug 5250

Summary:	net_applet is useless in GNOME3 because of NetworkManager
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	François Jaouen <farfouille64>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	liberforce, mageia, mageia, mageia, olav, stormi-mageia
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description François Jaouen 2012-04-06 08:43:25 CEST

Description of problem:
GNOME3 comes with NetworkManager (nm-applet to be precise) which is well integrated in gnome-shell. But mga2b1 installs also net_applet (that belongs to drakx-net-applet). net_applet is not well integrated into gnome-shell :
- it appears in the notification area who is hidden by default
- it doesn't fit very well with the look of gnome-shell
But the main problem is that there is 2 network managers on the desktop and it result an awkward behavior when connecting to a wifi network : 2 sets of popup dialog one for networkmanager and one for net_applet. Not a good user experience

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

- draxk-net-applet
- mageia installer


How reproducible:

1. install Mageia 2 beta 1 with GNOME desktop
=> Network Manager applet appears in the panel on the top right while net_applet
   appears in the bottom right when the cursor is moved on bottom right of the
   screen.
2. connect to a wifi network (choose a network not already known in order to have
   to enter the wifi key).

Note : I set the severity to Major because it gives the feeling of bad integration of GNOME3 into Mageia (compared to fedora or ubuntu).

Comment 1 François Jaouen 2012-04-06 09:25:39 CEST

Replace Mageia 2 beta 1 with Mageia 2 beta 2...

My bads

Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-06 13:37:04 CEST

CC: (none) => mageia, olav
Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Damien Lallement 2012-04-06 15:30:36 CEST

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Colin Guthrie 2012-04-06 18:46:51 CEST

It's not completely useless. For example last time I checked NM didn't handle 3G cards and such like too well (could be wrong now)

As such it's sometimes nice to run both, but I think it would rather make sense to make net_applet check for nm and simply quit if it's running. It might not be 100% what the user wants, but it's a good indicator (and an easy patch).

Users can still run draxnet manually if they want.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 3 François Jaouen 2012-04-07 14:32:38 CEST

The situation seems to imporve regarding the handling of 3G devices by NetworkManager if I refer to NM 3G supported devices page :

https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband

btw, NM is actively developped by Redhat and is available as standard for Fedora (of course) and Ubuntu. At the same time, net_applet seems to be a bit forsaken by Mandriva (source :
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011_Development) although it seems there are some plan for 2012 (source : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2012.0_specs_proposal#Internet_apps).

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:05:55 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

François Jaouen 2012-05-30 18:40:56 CEST

Version: Cauldron => 2

Comment 5 François Jaouen 2012-05-30 18:57:14 CEST

Yes, still valid for Mageia 2

Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-30 19:10:09 CEST

(and in other desktop there is no network applet)

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Severity: major => enhancement

Comment 7 Olivier Blin 2012-07-03 20:43:11 CEST

I have opened bug 6675 about a wpa_supplicant + NetworkManager conflict.

This might be your bug as well.

Luis Menina 2012-12-20 12:03:44 CET

CC: (none) => liberforce

Comment 8 Samuel Verschelde 2013-09-06 20:13:36 CEST

Closing as a duplicate of bug 6675

Please reopen if you think it isn't.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6675 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => stormi
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE