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.
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 ***