Package: lxde Severity: wishlist
Hi LXDE people, looking at #988696 and #994875, I would like to ask, if you would be fine with switching the main desktop network-management tool away from connman to network-manager. The main reasons are connman-gtk's lack of a system-tray icon (so users are not easily aware of the existence of the tool) and some basically missing features [1]. It seems that network-manager is considered as the quasi-standard tool for network management these days, so question is, if you have some strong ambitions on using connman. LXDE being a light-weighted desktop environment, I guess a main point will be the disk-space and memory footprint, and currently this would be indeed an issue, since the installation of network-manager on top of a current LXDE installation uses 39 MB of additional disk space. (However, it was already proposed by a network-manager maintainer, that the used disk space could be reduced by 8,5 MB via the creation of a network-manager-l10n package or even more by the splitt-off of some plugin modules into separate packages [2].) Technically such switch from connman to network-manager could be done just by a swapping in a Recommends: line for the lxde package: - connman-gtk | network-manager-gnome | wicd + network-manager-gnome | connman-gtk | wicd What do you think? Holger [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988696#106 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988696#96 -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
