Ubuntu
network-manager-applet package

  1. Bug #289466
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 289466

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Cosmin L (lcosmin) wrote : Re: Network Manager 0.7 applet not Appearing if there are managed entries in /etc/network/interfaces

@Alexander:

You are right about managing VPNs on top of "nothing". But what if there is a valid connection (managed manually), then VPNs would make sense. However, NM must act carefully in this case and not interfere with (read "clobber") the already configured stuff (i'm thinking /etc/resolv.conf mosty); I don't know exactly how NM handles these issues, as I recently started using it myself, so I might talk nonsense.

As for the icon, I'm thinking that since the NM process and applet are up and running, something should be displayed. At least an icon and some information saying "i'm not managing your network, however, you have these interfaces ethX, ethY, up and running, with these settings, etc... read here for more info on this issue".
I think this might help novice users, since I for instance don't know how exactly I got my "manually managed" /etc/network/interfaces file, perhaps I randomly clicked too much around the gnome tools...

Vladimir's idea could work too, but I guess it would be too complicated to "take over" the manual settings of various distros able to run NM, no ?