bcooksley wrote:You will need to open System Settings > Advanced > KDE Services. Find the "Network Management" service and stop it. You will also need to remove the "Network Management" plasmoid from your desktop.

i did it, but id does not work
thanks anyway

What doesn't work?
The nm-applet application should work after removing the Network Management plasmoid and stopping the "Network Management" service in System Settings > Advanced > KDE Services ( Not YaST! )

You may need to close nm-applet and reopen it after performing this if you had previously opened it.

bcooksley wrote:What doesn't work?
The nm-applet application should work after removing the Network Management plasmoid and stopping the "Network Management" service in System Settings > Advanced > KDE Services ( Not YaST! )

You may need to close nm-applet and reopen it after performing this if you had previously opened it.

I have no network managment plasmoid installed, i have only the gnome network manager and its dependencies.

kde-networkmanager is not installed, as well as kde4-knetworkconf.
In the kde service manager the "Network status daemon" is deselected.
Nevertheless, even though being always deselected, it is always indicated as "running" everytime I restart.
If I stop it, and then run the command nm-applet the gnome applet will not load anyway and I will get the error message that I showed before.

the only way for me to start the gnome applet is to open the yast "network devices" control panel (where i have selected to use network manager and not ifup) and close the control panel.

when yast indicates that the network services are being restarted the gnome applet appears in my system tray.

I am afraid that I must have some configuration file somewhere which stops the thing from happening

Look for a KDE4 NetworkManagement plasmoid ( probably under kde4-plasma-* ) and uninstall it.

bcooksley wrote:Look for a KDE4 NetworkManagement plasmoid ( probably under kde4-plasma-* ) and uninstall it.

i will give you some images to try to make it easier for you to help me
this is my kde4 services window


and the network is always running even if deselected for startup.

this instead are the only packages with "network" in their name installed


and these are the only plamoids that I have installed


i personally do not know what to do now

That KDE 4 service is not the service I was referring to, and does need to be enabled. It is not related.
Do you ensure that KNetworkManager is closed when trying to use nm-applet?

bcooksley wrote:That KDE 4 service is not the service I was referring to, and does need to be enabled. It is not related.
Do you ensure that KNetworkManager is closed when trying to use nm-applet?

knetwork manager (as shown in the pictures) is not even installed

Do you have NetworkManager starting by default in YaST?

bcooksley wrote:Do you have NetworkManager starting by default in YaST?

yes.

One additional thing is that i have also kde3 installed in my system, but no kinternet o knetwork manager from kde3. Could that play a role ?

It shouldn't, given that KInternet & KNetworkManager are not installed.

Given the problems you are having with Network Manager, I would recommend installing Wicd, which can be installed from the openSUSE OBS.

Some progress! Although not sure whether this will land in 4.3.x or 4.4 See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174439

Due to the nature and requirements of KDE patch releases, this cannot be released as part of the KDE 4.3.x series. It could be included in 4.4 however.

thats true. im hoping the various distributions (i care about kubuntu/fedora) are not afraid to take the patches and apply them for kde 4.3.x by the time the next round of distro releases arrives about october/november or i guess we could grab the patches ourselves and try to build...