Re: What is the AI ​​policy of the project?

[Matias De lellis]

Hi Gaël,
With your approval and compliance with the policies, I uploaded it to my
personal area on Xfce GitLab..

https://gitlab.xfce.org/matiasdelellis/xfce4-network-manager

The project grew more than expected (it was practically completed,
replacing all the NM dialogues), but only because it worked very well.
I think it's in an interesting state to test. Although I wouldn't promote
it for official integration just yet.

I tried to be honest about the work, and that's why I listed Claude as a
co-author. As an anecdotal note, I can suggest an improvement to the AI
policies in the project.

*
https://gitlab.xfce.org/matiasdelellis/xfce4-network-manager/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md?ref_type=heads#ai-assistance

I can't remember where I saw this note before (Although the original policy
I read was to dismiss automatic MRs from bots), but it's brilliant or
simply honest.
AI helps us infinitely; I probably would have written something similar,
but it would have taken me 2 months.? I was able to build it in two days.
And believe me, I had considered doing it before and dismissed the idea!.

So, at this point, I don't think we should reject AI in any way.. But you
must know what you are building, and if you cannot defend it, it means you
are not aware of what you are proposing.

The strangest thing is that I can't defend part of my work here. Not
because I don't trust what's been built, but because the world of networks
is so vast that I can't test it all. The only VPN I have today is OpenVPN,
which works well, and I was able to test it. Then there's Wi-Fi and
Ethernet... What about the rest?.

So if you're only interested in the Wi-Fi so your mother can easily
connect, it's brilliant, and the rest should work, but I can't test it.

Regards,
Matias




El vie, 4 sept 2026 a la(s) 5:32 a.m., Gaël Bonithon (
trash.paradise at protonmail.com) escribió:

> Hi Matias,
>
> For Xfce’s policy on the use of AI, you can check out this link:
> https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/start#aillm_assisted_contribution_policy
>
> In this case, it’s a new project, and the maintainer (you) has chosen to
> use AI to write all or part of it, so there shouldn’t be a problem in
> principle.
>
> Personally, I think a network manager for Xfce could be useful; in fact, I
> believe requests for something like this have probably been made here and
> there already, even though I can’t recall any specific ones right now. I
> guess it would ultimately be an app with a panel plugin? It would need to
> be available for download somewhere once it’s somewhat complete, so we can
> get a sense of it. And if we were to eventually integrate it into our
> codebase, you’d need to be prepared to maintain it long-term.
>
> Feel free to come discuss this on matrix #xfce-dev, you’ll probably get
> more feedback there than here.
> Cheers,
> Gaël
>
> On Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 at 3:59 PM, Matias De lellis <
> mati86dl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I think the subject already says everything I'm asking you about.
>
> For context, I've only recently started to become familiar with AI. I
> became familiar with small projects in different languages, then I started
> rescuing personal projects that I had half abandoned, and now I'm building
> new things to try.
> I have some big personal projects that I don't know if they have a future,
> but they helped me to learn. Now with more experience, I want to return to
> my roots. Small projects, but ones that truly add value.
>
> Without further ado, let me tell you... The only thing that always
> bothers me about xfce4 is its "dependence" on nm-applet[1], so yesterday
> I started a new project called xfce-network-manager
>
> For now, it's just a plugin for the panel, which displays the list, click,
> and integrated password input. But if you find it interesting, and as long
> as it complies with the policies, I could formally propose it, and expand
> it to include more features.
>
> Note..
> [1] Raise your hand if this happened to you.. You're about to click on a
> network, and the menu has rebuilt and you have to search for it again. Or
> if you finally clicked and can't type the password in the input field.
>
>
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