Bug 426177

Summary:	knetworkmanager crippled in Fedora 8
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Philippe Rigault <prigault>
Component:	knetworkmanager	Assignee:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8	CC:	ltinkl, mmcgrath, piskozub, rdieter, roland.wolters
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Description Philippe Rigault 2007-12-19 00:33:54 UTC

Description of problem:

knetworkmanager, a very useful KDE app (especially for laptops) which has been 
present in past Fedora releases, has been replaced in Fedora 8 by a gnome 
program with _less_ functionality that _pretends_ to be knetworkmanager.
knetworkmanager used to work well in Fedora 7, so this is a regression.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

knetworkmanager-0.2-0.7.fc8

How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in KDE
2. Start knetworkmanager
3. Expect to see knetworkmanager
  
Actual results: some ugly gnome-ish looking applet appears that is not 
knetworkmanager, and is not any more integrated with the desktop's password 
manager (kwallet).

Expected results:

'knetworkmanager' starts ... knetworkmanager, the one and only, KDE-looking 
and integrated with kwallet.

Additional info:

Fedora8 knetworkmanager is a totally different thing from knetworkmanager:

$ rpm -ql knetworkmanager
/etc/kde/env/gnome-keyring-daemon-start.sh
/etc/kde/shutdown/gnome-keyring-daemon-stop.sh
/usr/bin/knetworkmanager
/usr/share/applications/fedora-knetworkmanager.desktop

$ more /usr/bin/knetworkmanager
#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/bin/nm-applet

Yuck, this is very bad. It is a blatant case of program naming abuse and lying 
to the user: the knetworkmanager application has been _replaced_ by something 
else that claims to be the original application. This thing should be 
called 'gnome-networkmanager-applet' or 'fedora-networkmanager-applet', but in 
no way knetworkmanager.

Please restore knetworkmanager in Fedora and name this horror something else.
Fedora KDE users deserve to have a true KDE.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2007-12-19 00:59:01 UTC

Yep, unfortunately, knetworkmanager doesn't yet work with NetworkManager >= 0.7
(as is included in F8, see bug #298991).

The best option we came up with (to handle upgrade cases primarily), was to
introduce a place-holder until when/if the situation improved.

Rest assured, we wouldn't be in this situation if there were any (better)
alternative.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298991 ***