Comment 90 for bug 259278

I was going to install network-manager-gnome in place of network-manager-kde, just to try to see if my situation is resolved. But as of right now, installing the -gnome version of the applet also entails installing additional packages such as libgweather, libsexy2, mobile-broadband-provider-info, notification-daemon, libpolkit-gnome0, libmbca0.

Is there a reason why there are so many additional dependencies for network-manager-gnome?