[Intrepid] Network-manager-kde shows nondescript if connected before login

[Sokraates]

Binary package hint: network-manager-kde

Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex. Fesh install,last updated 30.09.2008, ca. 11:00 CET.

network-manager-kde:
  Installiert: 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I don't have knetworkmanager installed. Is there any difference between the packages?

Network Manager connects to known WIFI networks or through my 3G-modem even before login. This works as designed.

However after login, network-manager-kde shows a green globe as an icon (which I assume means "connected", instead of the usual bars for WIFI or antenna for GSM-connections. Restarting the connection once logged in will restore the correct icon.

[Sokraates (sokraates)]

The correct icon is also restored when network-manager-kde automatically reconnects after suspending. So this seems to be a problem of NetworkManager starting a connection before network-manager-kde has been started.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Kubuntu better. The KDE3 version of KNetworkManager has been discontinued by its original authors. This unfortunately means that there will be no more bugfix releases, and updates in general will be limited to those fixing security flaws.

While we cannot fix your bug, the good news is that the applet has been totally rewritten for KDE4 in the upcoming Kubuntu 9.10 release. There is a good chance that this bug is no longer an issue with the new applet. If you find any similar or new issues with the applet included in Kubuntu 9.10, we would politely ask you to file them as new bugs against the "plasma-widget-networkmanagement" package.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.