Should have a button to pop up information about current connection

[Sandeep]

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-networkmanagement

It is not easy to see information about my currently connected network - especially information about IP address, DNS servers, gateway, netmask, etc.

Please note that VPN will add multiple active connections, so even if showing such information - the UI must not assume that it will only show info about one connection.

You could have a button near "Manage Connections" called "Info" which could launch a popup with all relevant information.

This severely limits usability - because if I have installed this on a non-geek user's machine and am asking him information about IP address (to maybe debug it), he would have to drop into command shell.

[ill (illumilore)]

Version: unspecified
OS: Linux

when using the plasma widget for networking, and you click on your connection, the ip address of the gateway is not shown, nor is there any way to get it to show.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296619

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Marking Triaged as requested on the #ubuntu-bugs channel

[Lamarque (lamarque)]

*** Bug 296619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Besides the gateway information, it would also be nice to see other information about my currently connected network, like information about IP address, DNS servers, netmask, etc.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Changed upstream report URL, as I reported a duplicate... :(

[Rajeesh K Nambiar (rajeeshknambiar-gmail)]

Created attachment 70281
Display Gateway, Netmask, DNS details in inteface details tab

Here's a patch implementing the requested feature, showing default gateway, broadcast address, subnet mask and primary/secondary/ternary DNS details.
I dislike this implementation for the reason that the height of Plasma NM applet is now way too much (visit the interface details tab, and click on 'Back' button to come back and observe the height increase).
Lamarque, I see that you have planned to add GSM details in another tab. Should we go that way - what do yo suggest?

[Lamarque (lamarque)]

I prefer to create a dialog to select which details to show like the one that existed for knetworkmanager. I started to implement such a dialog but has never finished it.

[Lamarque (lamarque)]

Commit http://commits.kde.org/networkmanagement/a051905b894ee5a3c1becfc9dc78f763df10bb8e implements the details editor and allows you to select to show the default gateway. Just a warning that at least NetworkManager 0.9.2.0 and 0.9.4.0 do not report the default gateway IPv4 address if the interface is using static configuration. I have tested it using qdbusviewer so this is an upstream bug.