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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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>
> "Tyler Brainerd" <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> "Mark Shuttleworth" <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Just so folks are clear on direction:
> >> >
> >> > - we would like to move to Connection Manager ("connman") in due
> >> >course, for its cleaner, more pluggable, testable and maintainable
> >> >architecture
> >> > - we have a detailed, signed-off design for the indicator associated
> >> >with that at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking
> >> > - MPT is working on supporting designs, such as settings
> >> > - implementation has started on the indicator and code contributions
> >> >are welcome
> >> > - we aim to use this for 10.10 Netbook Edition (not desktop) unless it
> >> >fails badly
> >>
> >> Is the eventual plan for Ubuntu Desktop to move to conman as well (if so
> >> now is the time for other flavors to start looking into transition)?
> >>
> >>
> >"Ubuntu will integrate Connection Manager
> ><https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConnMan> (a.k.a.
> >ConnMan), with a human interface — a settings window and a network menu —
> >designed to cover networking in general, including network setup, proxy,
> and
> >firewall settings."
> >
> >It seems to be the eventual goal, according to the design specs.
> >
> All the discussion of it I've seen to date has been netbook focused.  I'm
> interested to hear from someone at Canonical about desktop .
>
> Scott K
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking
That's why I quoted from this page. It states fairly clearly that they are
starting with the netbook edition, but it's the beginnings for all of
ubuntu.


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