Add on/off switch for network connectivity check

Bug #1704162 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
NetworkManager
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-control-center
Expired
Medium
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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-center. I suggest that it be added to the Privacy panel although it might also work in the Network panel.

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-center.

See the upstream bug for a bit more details.

Tags: gnome-17.10
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in network-manager:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in network-manager:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
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
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 1.8.2-1ubuntu3

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network-manager (1.8.2-1ubuntu3) artful; urgency=medium

  [ James Henstridge ]
  * Backport connectivity checking API from master. (LP: #1704162)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * NetworkManager.conf: disable MAC randomization feature. There is no
    easy way for desktop users to disable this feature yet. And there are
    reports that it doesn't work well with some systems. (LP: #1681513)

 -- James Henstridge <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:18:49 +0800

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.24.3-0ubuntu5

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gnome-control-center (1:3.24.3-0ubuntu5) artful; urgency=medium

  * Add connectivity-check.patch:
    - Apply James Henstridge's proposed patch to add Connectivity Check
      on/off switch to Privacy panel (LP: #1704162)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:01:16 -0400

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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