I tryed to use connman instead of wicd. But the Applet "connman-applet" cannot connect to the connman daemon. No messages at the console. Mouseover-Message is "Connection Manager daemon is not running". I tryed net-misc/qconnman from qt overlay too and using "qconnman" I can configure and connect wired and wireless networks. The daemon is also running. Please fix the connman-applet-0.5.
This is because the 0.5 has api that works only with conman older than 1.0. I bumped to 0.7 which should have this fixed.