Comment 30 for bug 911706

The problem is that no other programs require to disable Network Manager service to function properly.

I've mentioned it before all of the browsers (besides default Firefox) work when connected through WvDial and NM service running. Thunderbird works and downloads mails without interference in it's offline settings. Transmission have no problems with downloads nor do qBittorrent or wget, gPodder, Steam (native and Wine), Desura / Desurium (native and Wine).

This means that the only programs that don't work when internet connection is managed through something other than Network Manager (and the service is running, which is default setting) are the ones installed with every Ubuntu. USC has the ping status checker but it's of no use because it only runs with NM disabled. Ubuntu One and Firefox don't have any kind of online status checker and they simply assume that if there is nothing in NM then user doesn't have internet connection. How can anybody think that this things are right is beyond my imagination.

Ubuntu Software Center and Ubuntu One have serious design flaws if they stupidly rely on one program for providing online status information.