In the 10.10 release, Unity on the netbook edition used ConnMan. As Unity is now moving to the desktop for 11.04, will that mean that ConnMan will replace NetworkManager on the default Ubuntu desktop as well?
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In the 10.10 release, Unity on the netbook edition used ConnMan. As Unity is now moving to the desktop for 11.04, will that mean that ConnMan will replace NetworkManager on the default Ubuntu desktop as well?
The systray (old notification area) will go away in 11.04. NetworkManager is the most critical piece that still uses it. We have three options:
The Ubuntu Platform team is working on the NM-applet-indicator option, and it's their decision which approach is taken in the final release.
No; the plan seems to be to enhance indicator-network / patch NM to use NM as a backend.
There's no blueprint yet, but the content of the Gobby document from UDS is here.
See Mark's answer for details.
I second that, there is no plan to make the new connman-based network menu the default for Natty.
There are many reasons why indicator-network wasn't made default in the Natty release:
1) Doesn't support all encryption options (you already mentioned that in your question).
2) Hasn't been tested heavily (its a new project).
3) Ubuntu has been using nm-applet since quite some time, and hence it was much better for them to just port it to the indicator rather than start from scratch.
Probably indicator-network will become default in a future release of Ubuntu after it meets all of the above points. Good things take time to come by™.
Go to System - Preferences - Startup Applications. In there, search for
Network Manager, select it, clickEdit, and provide the following values:Network Manager applet/usr/bin/nm-appletLaunch at loginThe next time you log in, you should see the applet appear.