Difference between revisions of "Projects/Network Management"

Revision as of 09:39, 9 January 2009

Overview

Network Management describes the interaction between the KDE desktop and the system's network information and configuration layers. This means:

Informative functions: "Am I online"?
Control functions: "Connect to to the internet using my WWAN card"
Integration: Tell Konqueror when the computer is not connected to the Internet so it can automatically work in offline mode.

Status

KDE 4

Support in Solid for the informational parts of the NetworkManager interface is complete, in [1]. Backends for NetworkManager 0.6 and 0.7 exist, in kdebase/workspace/solid/networkmanager-0.*. A backend for wicd is being worked on by Dario Freddi. Backends for other platforms would be welcome, contact the team for help on getting involved.

The user interface consists of a Plasma applet, a System Settings KCModule, and a kded module. It is a work in progress at playground/base/plasma/applets/networkmanager.

KDE 3

A rewrite of KNetworkManager for KDE 3 (by openSUSE) is nearly complete. This supports NetworkManager 0.7, which has a different interface to NetworkManager 0.6. More information can be found at the openSUSE KNetworkManager project page.

User feedback on KDE 3 KNetworkManager

extracted from bugs.kde.org

UI

Cleaner notifications on status change #132000
More information in tooltip, including VPN connections #132151
Show channel in tooltip #135054
Found networks with ESSIDs with configured connections should show up in network list #133900
Make passphrase entry more intuitive #142349
Enable cancelling a connection #143259
Attractive popup notifications [ http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147519 #147519]
Show network activity in system tray #148095
Make hex the default WEP key type #151437
Support WEP key indices #150926
Indicate encrypted connection in tray #159673

General

Support Ad-hoc mode #138882
Make KWallet use optional #140332
Make saving secrets optional #163551
Provide a log of connection information #144819
Import/export VPN connections #146159

KDE 4 Architecture

see [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3462 this blog entry for now

Applet Design and Usability

to be done

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 == Status ==
 === KDE 4 ===
-Support in Solid for the informational parts of the NetworkManager interface is largely complete, in kdebase/workspace/libs/solid.   Backends for NetworkManager 0.6 and 0.7 exist, in kdebase/workspace/solid/networkmanager*.   Backends for other platforms would be welcome, contact the team for help on getting involved.
+Support in Solid for the informational parts of the NetworkManager interface is  complete, in [http://websvn.kde.org:80/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/solidkdebase/workspace/libs/solid].   Backends for NetworkManager 0.6 and 0.7 exist, in [http://websvn.kde.org:80/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/solid/ kdebase/workspace/solid/networkmanager-0.*].   A backend for [http://wicd.sourceforge.net wicd] is being worked on by Dario Freddi.  Backends for other platforms would be welcome, contact the team for help on getting involved.
-A Plasmoid is work in progress and can be found in playground/base/plasma/applets/networkmanager and playground/base/plasma/engines/networkmanager.
+The user interface consists of a Plasma applet, a System Settings KCModule, and a kded module.  It is a work in progress at [http://websvn.kde.org:80/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/networkmanager/ playground/base/plasma/applets/networkmanager].
 === KDE 3 ===