Not possible to configure IP manually in kubuntu Jaunty

[Jonas Pedersen]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-network-manager

It is not possible to configure an IP manually with plasma-widget-network-manager in kubuntu Jaunty. After typing in the configuration the netmask is changed to 0 if I try to edit the newly created connection. I have tried the same using the network-manager applet in Gnome and that works, so I think it is an issue in plasma-widget-network-manager. Please see the two attached screen shots for example.

jonas@miraculix:~$ apt-cache show plasma-widget-network-manager | grep Version
Version: 0.0+svn930811-0ubuntu2

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

I saw the same thing. I think it runs in prefix format, according to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/293749/+viewstatus

In short, "24" is the equivalent of "255.255.255.0". I can confirm that it will store the number 24.

The general usability of setting up for a static IP address is naff: for example, when you click "add", the first screen is about MAC address and MTU size, both of which 99% of users will never want to change. You enter IP addresses in a list, although you generally only need one, while DNS servers, where it's common practice to have two, are in a single textbox, and you are left to work out for yourself that a comma-separated list is expected.

I suggest we generalise this bug to be about all of this rather rough UI.