gui should explain that vpn is not available
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-manager
Bug 278153 was originally about the fact that if the openvpn plugin is not installed, the VPN-related options in networkmanager are just grayed out (http://
It looks like the GUI does now now whether the plugin is available or not, because it disables the options (rather than eg just crashing or erroring when you try to use them.)
So this bug could be fixed by displaying a label in that dialog saying "VPN support is not installed" as well as disabling the controls. It's not perfect but it would at least give people a clue what to do next.
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Matt Trudel (mathieu-tl) |
affects: | network-manager (Ubuntu) → network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
Confirming, as it is indeed greyed out, and multiple other bug reports indicate this tends to be confusing to users.
I'm marking this as wishlist since it's not something "really broken", but rather an improvement we'd like to have to the software. There just needs to be some discussion with upstream as how to deal with implementing this.
I actually brought this up on the mailing list in the past (http:// mail.gnome. org/archives/ networkmanager- list/2009- June/msg00203. html), and it somehow slipped through the cracks of what I wanted to do.. I'll see if I can get around to get a draft patch ready over the weekend.