Add on/off switch for network connectivity check
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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NetworkManager |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-control-center |
Expired
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Medium
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
For Ubuntu 17.10, the Desktop Team would like to enable NetworkManager's connectivity check (LP: #997200) to detect captive portals. This has been supported by other GNOME distros for a couple years. Fedora in particular makes it opt out which we plan to do also in Ubuntu.
This bug is a feature request to add an on/off switch for this connectivity check to gnome-control-
I think there are two ways the switch could work. It could either write directly to a config file or it could use PackageKit to install or uninstall the distro-specific package that contains the connectivity config file. The advantage of the separate binary package is that it's easy to install or uninstall it for people that don't use gnome-control-
See the upstream bug for a bit more details.
Related branches
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in network-manager: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in network-manager: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
status: | Confirmed → Expired |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.