wicd 1.7.0 in [testing]

ise · 2010-01-17 10:31:10

Hi,
I have put wicd 1.7.0 to the testing repository for test purposes. Please test it and report bugs to our bugtracker and discuss issues in this thread.

There is a huge Changelog:

1.7.0:
    Changes for Packagers:
    - Wicd now supports a -k option, which should be run by the
init script when the daemon is stopped to release the DHCP lease but
should not be run on a restart of the daemon.
    - The ability has been added to split Wicd's components into
multiple directories. Use --gtk, --cli, --curses, and --daemon to
      setup.py configure to specify the locations of the respective
      components.
    - The preferred way to run the GTK UI is now to use wicd-gtk,
not wicd-client. wicd-gtk is a new addition to 1.7 that will never
      run wicd-curses. wicd-client will automatically decide to run
      wicd-curses if there is no X session available.

    Major Changes:
    - Connection information is available by right clicking the
    tray icon
    - Can set the hostname per network for all DHCP clients
    - urwid 0.9.9 is now supported
    - Added wicd-cli, a command line interface for use in scripts
    - Global scripts are now passed parameters specifying the
    network

    Minor Changes:
    - Support for only displaying notifications using -o to
    wicd-client
    - Reconnecting now works when measuring signal strength in dBm
    - ESSIDs made of numbers now work properly
    - All valid wpa_supplicant drivers are now displayed
    - Wired network is now displayed while scanning wireless
    networks
    - Added wicd-gtk, a command to always and only run the GTK UI
    - Marked ioctl backend not supported
    - Use dhcpcd-bin on Debian instead of dhcpcd script

Thanks
Daniel

Ramses de Norre · 2010-01-17 11:03:05

Nice, I left wicd because I had problems with the daemon crashing and the client not being able to reach the daemon by dbus. I will try this new version next week when I finished my exams and have a lot of spare time

ninian · 2010-01-17 13:34:43

Thank you very much for this. So far, my previous complaints seem to have been overcome and I have been merrily swapping between different wired and wireless interfaces for a while without incident.
Good to see that Wicd is back on track - it was the only package meriting an "IgnorePkg" in my pacman.conf!

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#1 2010-01-17 10:31:10

wicd 1.7.0 in [testing]

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Re: wicd 1.7.0 in [testing]

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Re: wicd 1.7.0 in [testing]

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