It was only possible to set the password from the authentication dialog,
which is not ideal; as it requires a connection attempt.
This adds an input entry along with a primary icon from libnma/libnm-gtk
which allows selecting the backend and flags for the password (system, session
agent, always ask or empty).
They're both the same now. We'll port the new one to libnm in follow-up commits.
NetworkManager 1.2 (which is currently versioned as 1.1.0) is going to bring
some new ABI while still supporting the old one. There's new VPN service and
UI plugin APIs in libnm.
There's one difficulty though -- the connection editor 1.2 will be linked
against libnm and a new libnma library it will provide (as opposed to
libnm-glib and libnm-gtk), thus will be incapable of loading of property
plugins that are linked with the old libraries (due to glib type system
limitations).
However, we must not break support for other connection editors (GNOME control
center, older versions of nm-connection-editor, etc.) therefore we need
to build two versions of the property plugin. NetworkManager 1.2's libnm will
provide a shim that makes it easy.
Tobias Brunner