From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98%desktop?= =?utf-8?Q?-services=E2=80=99=3F?= Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:05:16 +0200 Message-ID: <8737894bhf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87iniaf06l.fsf@gnu.org> <8760e95qxu.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87mv6iz1b4.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmzs9-0005YI-Om for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 06:05:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmzs6-0003H7-Ka for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 06:05:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mv6iz1b4.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:17:03 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel , Kei Kebreau Hi, Andy Wingo skribis: > It seems like all GNOME users are ready for this change. I tried it out > locally and it's quite nice. Patch like this: > > diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm > index 0509bd8a4..f12fe78e5 100644 > --- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm > +++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm > @@ -810,7 +810,8 @@ with the administrator's password." >=20=20=20=20=20=20 > ;; The D-Bus clique. > (avahi-service) > - (wicd-service) > + (service network-manager-service-type) > + (service wpa-supplicant-service-type) > (udisks-service) > (upower-service) > (accountsservice-service) For GNOME it=E2=80=99s definitely better than Wicd. > The network manager command also seems to include `nmtui' for a > curses-based interface, and `nmcli' for a command-line interface. I > don't know if there's an applet or something like that, but of course > that could be installed as part of the xfce-desktop-service package. > Seems to me like network manager could be a good default for Guix > desktop systems. I went as far as switching to NM on my GNOME-less laptop. ;-) nmtui works well for me, and overall NM works better than Wicd (it reconnects more reliably and more quickly to wireless networks AFAICS.) A GTK+ interface to NM similar to that of Wicd (i.e., not the GNOME applet) would also be welcome; does anyone know of such a thing? Overall, NM seems to work better than Wicd, whether or not one uses GNOME. Even if the issue Chris Marusich mentioned still applies, I think switching to NM in =E2=80=98%desktop-services=E2=80=99 would be a net= win. Are there objections to this? Ludo=E2=80=99.