Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

[Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>]

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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> Shouldn’t we replace Wicd with NetworkManager in ‘%desktop-services’?
>
> I’ve given it a try on a GuixSD GNOME installation and it appears to
> work well, and it’s obviously well-integrated with GNOME, whereas Wicd
> is a bit hidden (one has to know what to look for) and “foreign.”
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Now, as someone who doesn’t use GNOME, I wonder if NM would work well
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

I'm in favor of the change as long as NetworkManager's equivalents to
wicd-gtk and wicd-curses are installed by default. Mark brought up
nmtui; that sounds like something we should enable. Also, it would be
nice to have notifications work (if they don't already) when using
nm-applet. I hear that this depends on xfce4-notifyd?

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