network-manager-gnome applet doesn't show options

[charlee.papah]

left clicking the applet should drop-down a list of connections, however i get a pop-up menu titled "connection properties: eth0" (see scrrenshot)

right clicking the applet should give me a list of option in which are included: "Enable connections", "Enable Wireless connections", etc. However, all i get is the gnome panel options -- Properties ; Help ; About ; etc. --. ( screenshot not available )

the About option says the applet is: Network Monitor 2.28.0 by Sun Microsystems. I remember it used to say it was NetworkManager Applet 0.8 by RedHat...

i have network-manager and network-manager-gnome installed.

how can i get that applet back, any ideas please. i have exhausted the google search.

[charlee.papah (n-hartmann)]

ok, so i went through the synaptic list again... to try and find the right applet and i found gnome-status-applet (installed) version 2.28.0, which coincides with the "About" information. So obviously this is not the correct applet.

So I unistalled this, but lo and behold, after a restart the applet is gone and no option is available in the applet menu.

Any ideas? How can i get the network-manager applet?

[charlee.papah (n-hartmann)]

Apparently, the correct applet is "network-manager-gnome", and i do have it installed. It, however, does not appear in the "Add to Panel" menu. Any ideas on how to get it there?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[charlee.papah (n-hartmann)]

[SOLVED]

the problem was not really a bug, but finding the solution took up several hours of research which didn't get me anywhere. finally, i just blank mindedly right clicked the gnome panel, clicked add to panel selected notification area, and VOILA! the sought after icon appeared. that was it.