Take it easy Jonathan. It's not me who raised the question of 
having a lightweight network manager. As I said many times on this list, 
I'm perfectly happy with wpa_gui, which is based on Qt. But if 
lightweight is the goal, then it should use a lightweight toolkit or 
curses. With curses, you also reduce the number of dependencies. This is 
simple logic. Now, if you tell me Gtk+2 is lightweight, I believe you, I 
didn't look myself.

     The audience of Linux does not restrict to email, browsing, and 
office suite, that is end users of shiny applications. There is another 
kind of audience: people who need to develop their own custom 
applications; these people don't care of look and feel, but they care 
with development time.

     I developped around 2000 an oscilloscope emulator as a debug tool 
for custom waveform digitizers used in a Particle Physics detector; this 
is my only experience with a GUI toolkit.

     Go look at http://xforms-toolkit.org/screenshots/ and you will see 
a collection of screenshots and explanations of what these applications 
are doing. Please go have a look. It's a short but interesting visit.

     Didier