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WICD
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This is expansion of the `original`_ WICD, which is semi dead project - even
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though there was `some activity`_ regarding moving it to the Python3, some of
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them even has `been merged`_ to the original sources, yet it's still unreleased
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and what worse - broken.
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What is WICD?
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Wired and Wireless Network Connection Manager.
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A complete network connection manager Wicd supports wired and wireless
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networks, and capable of creating and tracking profiles for both. It has a
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template-based wireless encryption system, which allows the user to easily add
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encryption methods used. It ships with some common encryption types, such as
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WPA and WEP. Wicd will automatically connect at startup to any preferred
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network within range.
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Why are you doing this?
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My motivation is to make it usable again, and my effort concentrate on the
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daemon itself and curses TUI, as the most attractive parts of the project to me.
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What's works:
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1. Installation. It was broken, but the fix was trivial. So now, the usual
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``python setup.py install`` should just work.
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2. TUI in ncurses. Actually, it's using `urwid`_ underneath. It still have some
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issue, like crashing in some situations, just like wicd-1.7.4, but I have a
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plan to take a close look at it.
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What is not:
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1. GUI/client in GTK. WICD used to use `pygtk`_, which (unfortunately) is
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Python 2 only project. I would be tempted to reimplement it with gobject,
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but I have 0 motivation for doing so, because GTK2 is not supported through
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it.
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2. Applet for GNOME Shell. There was simple dispatcher for try icon used in
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GNOME Shell, yet, it just use GUI.
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3. Notification - it was used for GTK client.
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License
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=======
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License is unchanged, and as the original code it's GPLv2. You can find copy of
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the license attached as a ``LICENSE`` file in the root directory of the project.
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.. _original: https://launchpad.net/wicd
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.. _some activity: https://github.com/PXke/wicd-reloaded
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.. _been merged: https://github.com/zeph/wicd
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.. _urwid: http://urwid.org/
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.. _pygtk: https://web.archive.org/web/20180416083422/http://www.pygtk.org
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