Re: [SyncEvolution] desktop platform dependencies in syncevo-dbus-server: keyring, network monitoring
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 09:28 +0100, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
Frederik Elwert wrote:
>> Network monitoring might be another tricky problem, but in contrast to
>> password storage, I think it was solved via a freedesktop.org D-Bus API
>> which works under both KDE and GNOME. We can depend on that on Linux.
>> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> I didn’t find anything on fd.o, but I think NetworkManager is commonly
> used under KDE and GNOME, so it’s DBus interface could be used. But NM
> is not always present, e.g., some users replace it with wicd, or use
> old-school config file network configuration. But maybe I missed
> something.
Yeah, there isn't a common API at the moment, I believe. NetworkManager,
Moblin Connman and Maemo ConIC all have different APIs.
So what does the sync-ui check at the moment? Is the "diable sync
because unconnected" an --enable-gui=moblin exclusive feature because we
only support ConnMan?
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