1) When we run gnome-settings-daemon, we weren't enabling the xsettings plugin, which translates those gsettings keys into actually useful X settings.
2) Fixing the above works for the dialogs that nm-applet throws up. But for the nm-applet menu itself, it looks like we have to fix an issue with libdbusmenu-gtk not proxying those X settings changes across the dbus wire. Looking into that.
OK, there are two things going on here.
1) When we run gnome-settings- daemon, we weren't enabling the xsettings plugin, which translates those gsettings keys into actually useful X settings.
2) Fixing the above works for the dialogs that nm-applet throws up. But for the nm-applet menu itself, it looks like we have to fix an issue with libdbusmenu-gtk not proxying those X settings changes across the dbus wire. Looking into that.