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| author | Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> | 2017-05-11 14:55:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> | 2017-05-11 14:55:55 +0200 |
| commit | c333f062ddcba9b35330647bf6cbd0a07f2d786e (patch) | |
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| parent | a222e56e103f949b148a6942e385ccca2c26d9f3 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/docs/libnm/html/ref-overview.html b/docs/libnm/html/ref-overview.html index f1b5e704..d2f12619 100644 --- a/docs/libnm/html/ref-overview.html +++ b/docs/libnm/html/ref-overview.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="libnm Reference Manual"> <link rel="up" href="index.html" title="libnm Reference Manual"> <link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="libnm Reference Manual"> -<link rel="next" href="ch02.html" title="Client Object API Reference"> +<link rel="next" href="usage.html" title="Using libnm"> <meta name="generator" content="GTK-Doc V1.25 (XML mode)"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> @@ -17,29 +17,49 @@ <td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td> <td><img src="up-insensitive.png" width="16" height="16" border="0"></td> <td><a accesskey="p" href="index.html"><img src="left.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td> -<td><a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html"><img src="right.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td> +<td><a accesskey="n" href="usage.html"><img src="right.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td> </tr></table> <div class="chapter"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"> <a name="ref-overview"></a>Overview</h1></div></div></div> +<div class="toc"><dl class="toc"> +<dt><span class="section"><a href="ref-overview.html#intro">Introduction to libnm</a></span></dt> +<dt><span class="section"><a href="usage.html">Using libnm</a></span></dt> +</dl></div> +<div class="section"> +<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> +<a name="intro"></a>Introduction to libnm</h2></div></div></div> <p> - libnm maps fairly closely to the actual D-Bus API that NetworkManager - provides, wrapping the remote D-Bus objects as native GObjects, - mapping D-Bus signals and properties to GObject signals and properties, - and providing helpful accessor and utility functions. However, unlike - the old libnm-util/libnm-glib API, the mapping to the D-Bus API is not - exact, and various inconveniences and historical anomolies of the D-Bus - API are papered over. - </p> + libnm is a client library for NetworkManager, the standard Linux network + management service. NetworkManager supports a wide variety of network + configuration scenarios, hardware devices and protocol families. Most of + the functionality is exposed on a + <a class="ulink" href="https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/spec.html" target="_top">D-Bus API</a>, + allowing other tools to use the functionality provided by NetworkManager. + </p> +<p> + libnm provides C language bindings for functionality provided by + NetworkManager, optionally useful from other language runtimes as well. + </p> <p> - The following is a rough overview of the libnm object structure and - how to use the various parts of it: + libnm maps fairly closely to the actual D-Bus API that NetworkManager + provides, wrapping the remote D-Bus objects as native GObjects, + mapping D-Bus signals and properties to GObject signals and properties, + and providing helpful accessor and utility functions. However, unlike + the old libnm-util/libnm-glib API, the mapping to the D-Bus API is not + exact, and various inconveniences and historical anomolies of the D-Bus + API are papered over. </p> +<p> + The following is a rough overview of the libnm object structure and + how to use the various parts of it: + </p> <div class="mediaobject"> <a name="libnm-overview"></a><img src="libnm.png"> </div> <p> - </p> + </p> +</div> </div> <div class="footer"> <hr>Generated by GTK-Doc V1.25</div> |