Bug 130370

Summary:	GNOME modemlights applet missing
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Andreas Hanke <andreas.hanke>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	proposed spec file

Description Andreas Hanke 2005-10-24 19:55:07 UTC

The GNOME modemlights applet is missing from the gnome-applets package. With the
upstream release of gnome-applets 2.9.4, it was changed to depend on
gnome-system-tools, but neither Fedora nor SuSE ship gnome-system-tools. The
result is that the new applet is not built and that no modemlights applet is
packaged at all.

Upstream changelog entry:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-applets/2.9/gnome-applets-2.9.4.changes

"2005-01-07 Davyd Madeley <davyd@madeley.id.au>

* configure.in: Support for new modemlights (requires
gnome-system-tools to build).
* modemlights/*: Out with the old, in with the new."

This is not optimal because this applet is very useful for modem and ISDN users.

I'll attach a proposed spec file to build the old applet as a separate package.
Additionally, there might be a different approach to restore the old applet in
the main package by simply copying the old files over the new ones and undoing
the changes in configure.in - Fedora does it like this.

I don't know whether this should be a bug or an enhancement, so I'm marking it
as a bug because there is currently less functionality than in the version of
GNOME distributed with previous SuSE releases.

Comment 1 Andreas Hanke 2005-10-24 20:02:47 UTC

Created attachment 55269 [details]
proposed spec file

Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2005-10-24 20:08:46 UTC

Actually, we do ship gnome-system-tools but it really doesn't work that well.

Comment 3 Andreas Hanke 2005-10-24 22:12:58 UTC

Yes, gnome-system-tools is indeed included, but the applet is still not built because gnome-system-tools is not mentioned in BuildRequires, and even if it were, it would introduce a run-time requirement to gnome-system-tools.

The old applet is not "optimal" either because it requires the user to know or to find out the command line for connecting and disconnecting, but it's still better than nothing because the kinternet/qinternet package is not installed with the default GNOME selection, and dial-on-demand is not the best thing to do for ISDN and modem users.

Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2005-12-15 14:51:46 UTC

Robert, shouldn't NetworkManager handle this now?

Comment 5 Robert Love 2005-12-15 15:22:55 UTC

NM does not show modem lights, no.

Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2005-12-15 15:57:00 UTC

Was not clear enough - the main bug is actually that there is no easy way to switch to a ppp connection in GNOME.  I believe this to be solved in NM now.

Comment 7 Robert Love 2005-12-15 16:54:11 UTC

Oh, yes.  Highly misleading bug summary, then.  ;-)

NM resolves.

Comment 8 Stanislav Brabec 2006-01-03 11:48:38 UTC

Related bug 141130.

Comment 9 Stanislav Brabec 2006-01-03 12:35:10 UTC

Fixed build of modemlights applet for EDGE/10.1/supplementary (missing system-tools-backends in build environment).