I'm not sure how many people saw this http://vizzzion.org/?blogentry=839 but it's finally coming no more using KNetworkmanager (kde3) or nm-applet (gnome).

You can read how to build the plasmoid at my blog http://verbalshadow.wordpress.com/2009/ ... r-in-kde4/

Do you reckon if it's stable enough for daily use? From what I saw on screenshots the new network manager looks very classy.

EDIT:
For some reason it won't compile on my machine. When invoking make nothing happens. The cmake configuring part completes without errors.

mensch wrote:Do you reckon if it's stable enough for daily use? From what I saw on screenshots the new network manager looks very classy.

EDIT:
For some reason it won't compile on my machine. When invoking make nothing happens. The cmake configuring part completes without errors.

I have only started using it today, but have run into nothing that is a showstopper. There are bugs and glitches though.

Can you paste the whole process with error up so I can see?

That's the problem, there's no ouput from the make command. Running CMake generates this output:

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-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found.
-- Found Qt-Version 4.4.3 (using /usr/bin/qmake)
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so - found
-- Looking for gethostbyname
-- Looking for gethostbyname - found
-- Looking for connect
-- Looking for connect - found
-- Looking for remove
-- Looking for remove - found
-- Looking for shmat
-- Looking for shmat - found
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Found Automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl
-- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT
-- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT - Failed
-- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT
-- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT - Success
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL - Success
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Phonon Version: 4.2.96
-- Found Phonon: /usr/lib/libphonon.so
-- Found Phonon Includes: /usr/include/KDE;/usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- checking for one of the modules 'NetworkManager'
-- checking for one of the modules 'libnm-util'
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build

Could I be missing some development packages?

I don't see anything missing in the cmake output.

Can you run

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make VERBOSE=1

and give me the output from that.

Ah! I still don't see any significant errors:

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/usr/bin/cmake -H/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid -B/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid
/build --check-build-system CMakeFiles/Makefile.cmake 0
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_start /home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build/CMakeFiles /home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build/CMakeFiles/progress.make
make -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build'
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_start /home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build/CMakeFiles 0

mensch wrote:Ah! I still don't see any significant errors:

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/usr/bin/cmake -H/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid -B/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid
/build --check-build-system CMakeFiles/Makefile.cmake 0
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_start /home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build/CMakeFiles /home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build/CMakeFiles/progress.make
make -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build'
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_start /home/mensch/Sources/NM-plasmoid/build/CMakeFiles 0

Looks like it is says you built everything already. Weird.
Just double check to see if you can install. Otherwise I'm out of ideas right now. I will have to think some more.

Just checked, I'm afraid it says that there are no rules to make the target install.

What version of Cmake are you using, maybe that is the issue.
Normal it would error out is you didn't have a high but the base CMakeLists.txt doesn't defined a minimum version.

I'm using cmake 2.6 patch 2

I'm using cmake 2.6.2-3, which is the minimum required cmake version to compile 4.2 packages I believe.

Do you have all the NetworkManager development packages installed? I think there is an issue otherwise.

I thought of that too, so I installed networkmanager-dev. They're at version 0.6.6, is that too early or I'm I missing other networkmanager related development packages?

You need NetworkManager 0.7 to use the plasmoid.

I've just upgraded to 0.7, but still no make messages or progress. Very strange.

Hi
did you checkout the complete playground tree and executed cmake in that directory? I had exactly the same problem and after some developers pointed me to the solution I was able to compile it. You can find it here: solved-compiling-p ... 23568.html
and there is one here too: http://forum.kde.org/network-manager-ap ... 22960.html

EDIT: If you used the howto that you posted earlier, you probably downloaded just the plasmoid-directory.