A network control and status applet for NetworkManager
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Historically, nm-connection-editor had NotShowIn=GNOME because
on the one hand gnome-control-center depended on nm-c-e (so it
was always installed), on the other hand, it is deemed confusing
to have two network configuration tools.
Not being able to start nm-connection-editor is also undesirable,
so after long back and forth, this was (again) changed upstream with
([1]). Also, in the meantime gnome-control-center should no longer
depend on nm-c-e, so it seems all good. Almost.
However, gnome-control-center *still* Recomments: on nm-c-e ([2])
and also with Fedora live installation, nm-c-e ends up installed
in the final system (because nm-c-e is a dependency of anaconda, and
with live installation those dependencies also get installed ([3]).
Regardless of these two problems, the WG also does not like that
an existing Fedora installation (which likely has nm-c-e installed),
after upgrade has nm-c-e showing up and confusing users.
So, the agreed plan is to move the desktop file out of
nm-connection-editor and ship it with a new nm-connection-editor-desktop
package. Note that this is not a regular package split (with
Obsoletes:), because we in fact want during package update to get
rid of nm-c-e's desktop file. Of course, this breaks non GNOME spins,
which actually expected that nm-connection-editor is startable in the DE.
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