[Bug 38978] New: NetworkManager / Conman support

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38978

           Summary: NetworkManager / Conman support
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: mission-control
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


At the moment Empathy is the one doing connectivity checking. This should be
done by MC so other clients (KDE, gnome-shell, etc) would work properly as
well.

We should re-use EmpathyConnectivity as much as possible
http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/tree/libempathy/empathy-connectivity.c

How should we implement this? As a connectivity plugin I guess?

Empathy has a gsetting key to disable connectivity checking, do we want that as
well?

Also, should we provide a way for applications to know the connectivity status?
Some empathy components are using EmpathyConnectivity:
- EmpathyPresenceChooser: unsensitive if network is offline
- EmpathyPresenceManager: implement the reconnecting policy. Should move to MC.
- EmpathyAccountsDialog: to tell user accounts are offline because network is
down. Could be replaced by a TP_CONNECTION_STATUS_REASON_NETWORK_OFFLINE
returned by tp_account_get_connection_status()

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