Comment 4 for bug 1756720

I think I have the same issue. The VPN switches always appear in the Off state, although the VPN is active. I think this might be part of a wider issue, because there are several problems with the network applet:

- In the menu, the wired connections has no name or icon, there is just a blank line with an arrow to expand it (see attached picture). Once expanded, the wired connection options (profiles, turn off, configure) are there.

- The connection icon does not appear in the top bar (see attached picture)

- There is no WiFi connections line, although WiFi is up and running:

gpothier@tadzim3:~$ nmcli d
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
eth3 ethernet connected auto
wlan0 wifi connected kyg
virbr0 bridge connected virbr0
lo loopback unmanaged --
virbr0-nic tun unmanaged --

- Restarting network manager causes the applet to completely misbehave. For instance, after restarting NM, attempting to connect to a VPN through the applet actually tries to connect to some random remembered WiFi network. It is necessary to restart Gnome Shell for the applet to resync with NM.