Bug 298999 – Adding usable knetworkmanager for KDE4 supporting >networkmanager-0.7

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Luyang Han 2009-12-30 17:30:39 UTC]

Right now there is no knetworkmanager in the portage tree. If the KDE4 user needs networkmanager, one has to use nm-applet from gnome. The wicd alternative has much limitation, such no ppp, no broadband, no VPN and so on.

The knetworkmanager has released a usable version for KDE4. There is currently no stable release but certain SVN version is adopted by other distributions:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/knetworkmanager

There is a discussion in the forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789332-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

There is a 9999 version in the kde-testing, which requires QT_MINIMAL="4.6.0_beta". 

I think certain SVN version can be adopted and included in the main tree. The USE flag and the ebuild script can be refined.

Thank you!

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-12-30 18:49:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Right now there is no knetworkmanager in the portage tree. If the KDE4 user
> needs networkmanager, one has to use nm-applet from gnome. The wicd alternative
> has much limitation, such no ppp, no broadband, no VPN and so on.
> 
> The knetworkmanager has released a usable version for KDE4. There is currently
> no stable release but certain SVN version is adopted by other distributions:
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/knetworkmanager

This source package you are referring to is for KDE 3.5.x. Debian has snapshot for KDE 4.x only in Experimental, 

http://packages.debian.org/experimental/network-manager-kde

The "equivalent" of experimental is kde-testing overlay,

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob_plain;f=kde-misc/knetworkmanager/knetworkmanager-9999.ebuild;hb=HEAD

Closing as LATER.