On Monday 19 September 2011 18:03:28 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> >> That being said, I do not believe this patch is complete.  Yes, it
> >> compiles, but there is code that directly references
> >> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings".  According to the NM 0.9
> >> porting guide att
> >> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-migrating.html,
> >> the NetworkManagerUserSettings service has been completely removed from
> >> NM
> >> 0.9.
> >
> > I may be wrong but seems that NetworkManagerUserSettings belongs to
> > knetworkmanager,
> > not to the NM backend.
> 
> No, from what I can tell NetworkManagerUserSettings was primarily part of
> NetworkManager, and anything left in knetworkmanager is vestigial at this
> point and needs to be replaced with the new "secret agent" NM 0.9 DBus
> service.

There were two services: one for server part and one for client part is how I
understand it. And the client service is launched from knetworkmanager or another applet.
In the NM there is no need for client service, and the client can call directly the NM "agent" service.