"System Setting" checkbox is ambiguous and not documented
This bug report was converted into a question: question #55937: What is "system setting" in network manager and why is there no documentation?.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
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Unassigned | |||
Bug Description
There is a checkbox "system setting" in the network manager, but there is no help or information available what it is good for and how it works.
| Jacob Peddicord (jpeddicord) wrote : | #1 |
| Phoenix (phoenix-dominion) wrote : | #2 |
| Phoenix (phoenix-dominion) wrote : | #3 |
The wording is not really usefull or intuitiv. it should be something like "establish connection upon system start". But then a user has to be aware that there are connections that are established upon boot-up and other upon login.
IMHO you have to remove the "Auto "-Prefix, otherwise changes don't get safed.
This is all well documented in the WiKi Mentioned in the Answers article - but why is there no inline help and but a poor system help?
Please forgive me, but bad wording, that no user understands and missing documentation qualifies for me as a bug.
| Phoenix (phoenix-dominion) wrote : | #4 |
The wording is not really usefull or intuitiv. it should be something like "establish connection upon system start". But then a user has to be aware that there are connections that are established upon boot-up and other upon login.
IMHO you have to remove the "Auto "-Prefix, otherwise changes don't get safed.
This is all well documented in the WiKi mentioned in the Answers article - but why is there no inline help and but a poor system help?
Please forgive me, but bad wording, that no user understands and missing documentation qualifies for me as a bug.
| Jacob Peddicord (jpeddicord) wrote : | #5 |
Thanks for the update. Based on the information provided here and in the support tracker, I'm going to edit the title of this bug and mark it as a usability issue.
| Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote : | #6 |
This has been fixed in Ubuntu 12.04.
| Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https:/