Re: connman does not respect /etc/network/interfaces when upgrading from buster to bullseye and more general considerations

Michael Biebl <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:05:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.desktop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 23.09.21 um 21:35 schrieb Jaycee Santos:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:21:10PM +0200, Ervin Dine wrote:
>> I have not had any problems with conman in my LXDE Debian 11 install
>> but if I may give my suggestion, gnome-network-manager works fine with
>> LXDE and it has more features. Why not bundle that instead of conman?
>> Conman does not even have an icon in the status bar where you can
>> toggle wifi on and off or choose another connection.
> 
> Is there a reason why to choose gnome-network-manager over something like
> nm-tray for LXDE?

I think nm-tray (being based on Qt5) is a reasonable choice for LXQT 
(which is also Qt5 based). LXDE on the other hand uses GTK, so I think 
network-manager-gnome is a better fit there. (both disk footprint and 
memory usage wise)
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