Re: Feature change or bug - Emacs server

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:49:20 +0900 tv.raman.tv@gmail.com (T.V Raman) wrote: 

TVR> As someone who "already" uses Emacs as the desktop (via Emacspeak),
TVR> I definitely think emacs-panel.el could make the Emacspeak Audio
TVR> Desktop even better -- and I look forward to it. One of the first
TVR> things I would want is to mimic things like nm-applet -- today,
TVR> that's one of the few things I find impossible to do without waving
TVR> a mouse at the Gnome GUI.  --

Can you or someone else who knows NetworkManager (nmcli,
nm-connection-editor, nm-tool, nm-online, nm-applet, etc.) explain what
needs to be provided and how to do it?  Pointers to specs, docs,
etc. are welcome.  Believe it or not I never use nm-applet so I have no
idea what it can do :)  I'll then add that functionality to
emacs-panel.el.

For the protocol, I found only
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerConfiguration which is a good
explanation and shows the D-BUS protocol to some degree, but not how to
use the protocol directly.

I plan to watch D-BUS anyhow to handle notifications.  So it seems that
using D-BUS is inevitable and probably better than relying on
command-line utilities.  Is it sufficient?  Or are there other pieces?

Thanks
Ted