Plasma profile missing plasma-nm (no NetworkManager GUI for Wi-Fi or Ethernet)

[rccerrillo]

Summary

It looks like the current Plasma desktop profile includes kscreen and plasma-pa, but not plasma-nm. Since the profile already includes a few user-facing components, it feels like the goal is a usable baseline Plasma setup rather than a strictly minimal one.

Rationale

• plasma-nm provides the standard NetworkManager applet for KDE Plasma.
• Other usability components like kscreen and plasma-pa are already included, so adding plasma-nm seems consistent with that approach.
• Most users expect basic network management to be available out of the box in a desktop environment.

User Experience

I ran into this during a recent install on a notebook that only has wireless:

• NetworkManager was installed with its default backend.
• However, plasma-nm wasn’t included, so there was no GUI way to manage Wi-Fi from within Plasma.
• Had issues trying to connect to appropriate network/SSID using the CLI.

Since there was no wired interface available, this made things a bit tricky:

• I couldn’t easily install additional packages afterward.
• The desktop ended up feeling incomplete from a usability standpoint.

Suggestion

Would it make sense to include plasma-nm in the Plasma profile to round out the basic desktop experience, especially for wireless-only systems?