"Shared to other computers" Method missing from "Addresses"

[Sietse Tsi-Tsun Au]

As described, the "Shared to other computers" option is missing from "Addresses" dropbox.

In the attached screenshot, on the left we see the "Network" GUI and on the right we see the "Network Connections" GUI.
As this option is only accessible through the "Network Connections" GUI, we see that the option is not accessible in the "Network" GUI and is blank.
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ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-23 (160 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.12.1-5ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
Tags: utopic
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 32.0-0ubuntu1

[Antti Kaijanmäki (kaijanmaki)]

I don't recognize the application on the left. How do you access it?

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

It looks like gnome's networkmanager network editor:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/sec-Using_NetworkManager_with_the_GNOME_Graphical_User_Interface.html

[Sietse Tsi-Tsun Au (sietse-au)]

My bad; it is indeed part of the gnome-control-center. I have adjusted the target.

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[Sietse Tsi-Tsun Au (sietse-au)]

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[Sietse Tsi-Tsun Au (sietse-au)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David Lechner (dlech)]

This is a patch that I submitted to Linux Mint to fix this issue (they maintain a fork of gnome-control-center). It applies cleanly to gnome-control-center in vivid and I have tested that the package builds and the patch fixes the problem. I'm not familiar with the patch process for Ubuntu, so let me know if I need to clean this up or do something different.

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[David Lechner (dlech)]

I assume the patch tag was removed because it has bitrotted?

I have submitted a new patch recently upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696793

I would really like to see this in 18.04 one way or another. I'm not too keen on another two years of "ALT+F2 nm-connection-editor" to be able to use this setting.