On Monday 20 of January 2014 23:04:04 Timothy Pearson wrote: > > On Monday 20 of January 2014 22:29:31 Timothy Pearson wrote: > >> > At the beginning - one unnecessary - knetworkmanager8. This being > >> > replaced by > >> > tdenetworkmanager, no longer being updated and may be removed from > >> > nightly-builds. > >> > >> tdenetworkmanager only works on NM 0.9 and above. The older software > >> (knetworkmanager8) is needed for NM 0.8 and below. > > > > Aha, I did not know this. I thought that tdenetworkmanager uses > > tdehw-library, > > not directly network-manager. Therefore, I assumed that tdenetworkmanager > > is > > not dependent on the version of network-manager => that dependency is > > addressed in tdehw-library. > > And I didn't consider it necessary to include NM <= 0.8 support in the > tdehw library. ;-) > > > Otherwise, we have a problem, because the commit a111d47e9 in dbus-1-tqt > > causes FTBFS in knetworkmanager8! > > Ah, OK. I am tempted to just say TDE R14 supports NM 0.9 and above, and > kill off knetworkmanager8 completely. Thoughts? > For me it does not sound very nice. This would cut off the network support for all users who have knetworkmanager functional at this time. > > By the way, tdenetworkmanager is built successfully on all currently > > supported > > Debianu / Ubuntu distributions. > > It will build, but the DBUS calls will fail at runtime (the user will be > informed properly, but there is no way to make it work). Yet another > reason I really hate DBUS sometimes! > Please, you have an overview of the differences between dbus calls for network-manager 8 and 9? > Tim > Slavek --