Comment 3 for bug 772073

There's some work that may be needed to simplify nm-applet menus, but right now I feel this remains the lesser evil than other designs we've seen (although mpt's idea of dealing differently with VPN connections are great and probably not too hard to implement). I'm not sure I want to jump into doing away with the More networks submenu as a Ubuntu diff unless absolutely necessary.

Note however, there's been some work to implement handling network connections in gnome-control-center so some of this may be on the way to be fixed too.

As a temporary measure I'll see if I can put together a patch that implements these changes and host it in a PPA if it makes sense, so we can get it tested and have a feel for how well it works.