From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ???%desktop-services???? Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:52:55 +0000 Message-ID: <20170730185255.kzkckbtxv4enl7xz@abyayala> References: <87iniaf06l.fsf@gnu.org> <87a83m0x7g.fsf@gnu.org> <20170730183915.GA29085@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jufwazlzw7zsjsev" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbtL7-0007QE-R4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:53:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbtL6-0006k5-SX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:53:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170730183915.GA29085@thebird.nl> 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: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel --jufwazlzw7zsjsev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Pjotr Prins transcribed 0.9K bytes: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 05:18:59PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Ludovic Court??s writes: > >=20 > > > Now, as someone who doesn???t use GNOME, I wonder if NM would work we= ll > > > for me. Last time I tried it???s CLI was too low-level to be usable,= and > > > I don???t remember seeing a curses interface. Suggestions? > >=20 > > I would welcome some improvement here, or insight on my part. Since I > > moved away from desktop environments, wicd has not not worked for me and > > I have been using ifconfig, wpa_supplicant and dhclient manually. That > > has removed my dependency on something like NM and it's apparent > > inherent magic...but it's rather painful. >=20 > I actually prefer doing it this way. wpa_supplicant with multiple > config files is the way when you travel a lot. No confusion between > phone tethering, eduroam and multiple wifi networks. Until these NM > tools start offering profiles... And general connecting is faster too. >=20 > Pj. But we're discussing desktop-environments here, not minimal stripped down WMs and their use cases. Do you suggest we tell people to just use the CLI or "add one of the following choices of network connectivity tools and their services"? That won't work out very well in practice. --=20 ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://n0is.noblogs.org/my-keys https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org --jufwazlzw7zsjsev Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEqIyK3RKYKNfqwC5S4i+bv+40hYgFAll+KwcACgkQ4i+bv+40 hYizxxAAm8Po0Z7OTYxmYLBNe1rQhxy4puHqyJsLHe4f/QX/YMvxZPqqgfFrWHsI N04SDqXHmI7DdElO5V6FmTu32pxX0MXOS1MmX1j7JheK/Nt+kG80rug4euJzDhP2 LtvZyNIP8vQqC8NOdS6laCy3/+lTGfQJScoxeFvsZwe2XftbxoXugmdYxR9hVi4w CsWA5PDytUQqPv49JWKLrJZ1kUrmG0F7tKPpOPGMKaDKb9WZfa/tdrO8k31+EJYs Gt5uCUZvqenx8g+DGqRF2NlEsPow1v1MHRreZEMZ0jwK+RpNXB/Kinzj6yg2oWK8 RIu1z+9SOWO0+SVmuT5xcxWPKHPSdTgbqoiq5Qat/FUbmmSfReH94+MWAtrgE622 9ckBQily6j4P+Bj9zGz30rnHHgt1+wvekMfVdc9pAIcL1sbx+J6ypnsr70ufmv2s KoVAQeWOn55d72sMdsvz3NAf3yMnW+YIjYK/rZZ2m53oEbDtVcjC9f9jsS/RdT96 /pG/ojv+uXpO7AmsrqlXNVTGUcqBrZD6jDwYEmBgg90xyUsv++XxYBXUsCrR/0K+ kibkOMRjfbp4/HEaVTIxTGDdmzd1t7Qn80y9+W9McfRgIkmtO7XpXGr9Q0V22DgY QK1W2QhFGQ5pedCkYAXUmO6ETiQWRF5pUPpGgGhCTPIjUhok4Rc= =3Dy9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jufwazlzw7zsjsev--