Manual config icon is the same as wired connection icon

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: knetworkmanager

knetworkmanager 0.1-0ubuntu12 no properly sets the manual configuration mode, but uses the same icon for this as for a wired network. This is an extremely poor user interface because sometimes the icon means that there is a wired network connection and other times the same icon means that the network interface is managed manually and there may or may not be a network connection available.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Note this is a significant change that it is to late to fix for Feisty.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Let's not exaggerate this.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

OK. Fair enough.

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

This is a rather annoying issue... see Question 9482 (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/9482).

KNetworkManager can't set this NetworkManager property, so I couldn't fix the problem without logging in to GNOME.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

NM 0.7 which is now available in intrepid properly supports static ip configs and thus the icon is the proper wireless icon with signal strength indication.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

same should be true for knetworkmanager