Hi again,

El 18/09/18 a las 11:23, aitor_czr escribió:
>
> Hi Jochen,
>
> El 18/09/18 a las 07:56, J. Fahrner escribió:
>>
>> Am 2018-09-18 01:11, schrieb aitor_czr:
>>
>>>
>>> I uploaded the new packeges after fixing most of the bugs:
>>>
>>> http://gnuinos.org/simple-netaid/
>>>
>>> I also added the .desktop menu entry.
>>>
>> Is there some README about simple-netaid?
>>
>
> The only existent README file for now was written by Edward Bartolo,
> and it-s focused to the previous version of simple-netaid, written in
> C and freepascal.
> So, it's a bit obsolete. However, the new version of simple-netaid
> also uses ifupdown, but there is no CLI version for now (this is a
> work in progress).
>
>> What is it? Is it a replacement for wicd?
>>
>
> Indeed, it's an alternative for wicd without dbus, written in C/C++
> and Gtkmm-2.4.
>
>> Can they live together, or must wicd removed? What's the difference
>> between the two?
>>
>
> I've been testing both working together, and i've found the following
> issue: the behaviour of wicd can be affected by the use of simple-netaid.
> Not only because of possible failed attempts connecting or
> disconnecting with wicd, but also for possible wrong information about
> the status of the network connection.
> In contrast, i didn' find this behaviour in the other way around; that
> is, simple-netaid is not affected by the use of wicd. So, it would be
> interenting to use both together in order to compare them.
>
> BTW, i fixed another bug in the wired connections, and built the
> packges for both architectures: i 386 and amd64. The packages are
> operative now, but there are still some issues pending to be fixed: a
> segmentation fault closing the application, the code for the hidden
> active wifis, a socket sharing information between the
> window_main_worker thread and the backend, and a lot of warnings
> during the compilation.
>
>> Jochen
>>
>
> Thanks for your interest on simple-netaid :)
>
> Aitor.

Another clarification: the backend of simple-netaid has been tested with
linux-3.16.x and linux-4.9.x

Cheers,

Aitor.