Package: lxde Version: 10 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Wicd currently gets installed as the default network management daemon and tool when LXDE is selected during Debian install. It has a number of bugs that affect basic usability, and the upstream devs are no longer maintaining it. I think network-manager should be the default instead.
One of those basic usability bugs is that Wicd fails to connect to insecure wifi for a bunch of users (bug reported multiple times, for the past several years). The reason is that Wicd still uses "ifconfig", instead of "ip", and the ifconfig interface is no longer working the same (at least for some hardware). I've submitted a patch for this, but the Wicd devs haven't responded to that, or other patches and bugs, for quite some time. Anyway - failing to connect to insecure wifi will definitely be a bad user experience for many people. Wicd should no longer be the default. Thanks, and thank you for maintaining LXDE. -Karl -- System Information: Debian Release: stable Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) I actually tested this just tonight on a fresh VM net install from the default amd64 install ISO. -- no debconf information
