Baltix

Connect button would make Network Connections window easier to use.

Bug #417709 reported by John McCabe-Dansted on 2009-08-23

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Network Manager Applet	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Baltix	New	Undecided	Unassigned
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

As shown in the Screenshot the Network Connections window does not have a connect button. If everything goes well the connection will appear in the network manager window. However some users may not know that they have to switch focus from the edit connections window to the panel. More importantly, what if there is some problem? The UI does not provide the use any way of saying "I know you think the connection is unavailable, but please try to connect and give me an error message telling me what is wrong.". As shown in the screen shot, the "Vodafone" connection has not appeared. I can think of a number of reasons why it might not appear:
  - Flaw in usb cable or phone
  - Blue man not correctly configured.
  - APN for vodafone incorrect.
  - Software bug
However without an error message I cannot tell which it is. Even a unhelpful Error message like "Unknown Error" would atleast let me know it was trying to connect and give me a phrase I could Google for.

I have heard that blueman has to be used in place of the bluetooth utilities is required, that Ubuntu's default apn for vodafone is incorrect, and that USB is easier to set up than bluetooth. I have tried all that and nothing worked. But that is not what this bug report is about.

This bug is about the lack of a button that will always either connect or provide the user with some error message.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 23 21:03:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20090804t185522.4bab334-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:

Tags:

Revision history for this message

John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht) wrote on 2009-08-23:

NeworkConnectionNoConnectButton.png Edit (55.0 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Gconf.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lo.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.pan0.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wlan0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wmaster0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Syslog.txt Edit (8.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Revision history for this message

Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote on 2009-08-24:

Removing the ubuntu-unr tag since it does not seem to be specific to UNR. If you feel that this bug is specific to UNR, please feel free to re-add the tag and leave a comment explaining why. Thanks!

tags:	removed: ubuntu-unr
affects:	network-manager (Ubuntu) → network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist