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Bug 343446

Summary:	Integrate with NetworkManager
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andrew Overholt <overholt>
Component:	Team	Assignee:	Platform Team Inbox <platform-team-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	pwebster
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Overholt

2011-04-20 14:05:39 EDT

It would be interesting to integrate the Eclipse platform with NetworkManager on Linux systems.

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/

Doing so would allow us to do things like not poll for networked resources but instead rely on whether or not the system says it has a connection or not.  CVS synchronization and network-using functionality could rely on this, too.  The Mylyn or EGit projects could make use of it to only attempt to sync when there is a network connection.

I'm sure there are other novel uses of this functionality :)

I'm filing this with Platform UI but if there's a better place, please move it there.

Comment 1 Andrew Overholt

2011-04-20 15:25:09 EDT

Thanks for the re-assignment, Paul.  Maybe it should go to Equinox?  Or SWT?  I guess SWT's platform file support is the closest thing to this that currently exists.  I don't think Team is appropriate as it's something we'd want at a lower level.

Comment 2 Alexander Kurtakov

2011-04-21 05:17:19 EDT

NetworkManager provides a decent dbus api so it should not be that hard to check for active connection. See http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/migrating-to-09/spec.html#org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active . But this will require proper dbus support in the platform - smth that totally makes sense for other integrational problems like PolicyKit usage and etc.

Comment 3 Paul Webster

2011-04-21 10:47:30 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for the re-assignment, Paul.  Maybe it should go to Equinox?  Or SWT?  I
> guess SWT's platform file support is the closest thing to this that currently
> exists.  I don't think Team is appropriate as it's something we'd want at a
> lower level.

Team is currently responsible for the org.eclipse.core.net plugin (that deals with network connections and proxies).  But they can re-direct if necessary.

PW

Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov

2018-12-17 07:25:34 EST

In bug 394087 core.net was moved to use gsettings which is good enough IMHO.