Bug 423881

Summary: RE: Icon and Information Details are useless New Network ManagerApplet in V11.0 of KDE3
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Scott Couston <scott>
Component: NetworkAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P4 - Low CC: anshulajain, forgotten_bSWU20Bh6O, scott, shiverma
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Bug Depends on: 489542    
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Description Scott Couston 2008-09-05 20:08:23 UTC
The Icon that was presented by Network Manager Under KDE Desktop provided right click simple information as to

IP
Netmask
Gateway
Link Statis
Traffic IN/Out KB/m

for both wired and wireless configs.

The New Green ball right click cannot even tell me the IP of the PC. The New Green Ball Applet info is next to useless and or meaningless.

If there was a RFC to change it to its current form please advise me of enhancement or bug request

Please move back to the applets original right click info.
Comment 1 Martin Schmidkunz 2008-09-25 14:44:15 UTC
Sounds like a good idea to me to have these informations back again.
What was the reason to skip them?
Comment 2 Helmut Schaa 2008-09-25 14:58:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #1 from Martin Schmidkunz)
> Sounds like a good idea to me to have these informations back again.
> What was the reason to skip them?

The switch from NM 0.6 to 0.7 changed the whole API and thus KNetworkManager needed a lot of work. Unfortunately some minor features were not ported due to lack of time yet.
Comment 4 Christian Zoz 2008-10-15 13:31:58 UTC
We should consider that for K4NM.
But for K3NM that will not be fixed anymore.
Comment 5 Scott Couston 2008-10-15 20:41:01 UTC
*** Bug 425434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Christian Zoz 2008-10-16 10:15:14 UTC
*** Bug 418532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Christian Zoz 2008-10-16 18:32:46 UTC
*** Bug 402592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Forgotten User bSWU20Bh6O 2009-01-29 21:51:07 UTC
This has been fixed in the latest versions of KNetworkManager4. See Factory for the package.
Comment 9 shishir verma 2009-01-30 11:13:28 UTC
but the bug talks about KDE3.
Comment 10 Anshul Jain 2009-02-12 06:22:45 UTC
There is no kde4-knetworkmanager for 11.0...and I'm unable to create the RPM through the Factory SRPM and the build service. 

Can you help?
Comment 11 Scott Couston 2009-02-12 07:45:37 UTC
KDE3 Network Manager Applet is still installed as part of default group selection/default install. If you check you 11.0 and 11.1 install you should find the knetworkmanager/KDE3 Applet is already installed.

Q - It appears as though the functions in the applet work correctly, but I have not tested.

As KnetworkManager Applet KDE3 is installed in both 11.0 and 11.1 I think we can rationally devote time to correcting the removal of information in opening comment which was the case in past.

This Applet is perfect for a right and left click, where 1 Provides meaningful info without going to a command line and running netstat and the other click continues with current functions. Without going to netstat it is NOT possible to determine initial comments details

Only sticking Point is if the KDE3 Applet which is installed and present in 11.0-11.1 cannot currently offer the functions that are currently available????

I trust Knetworkmanager in KDE4 gets a whole lot better and just to load all it stages seems to increase exponentially when used to manage IP and it options require a user to join a mailing list for help. I also hope all VPN permutations will be included in KDE4 Knetworkmanager and not stand alone.
Comment 12 Scott Couston 2009-03-03 23:54:32 UTC
*** Bug 478110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Scott Couston 2009-04-21 21:17:30 UTC
RE- Opened as this issue is not fixed in 11.1 - re-adjusting target to 11.2 and hopefully it will be fixed by then
Comment 15 Scott Couston 2009-04-26 18:07:48 UTC
Created attachment 288227 [details]
screen shot

There is yet another way of controlling the Network Connection via Kcontrol....Our problem now is which one do we focus on an fix to be able to use Network Manager and have it auto connect and has the ability to provide right click meaning data as in 10.2
Comment 16 Scott Couston 2009-05-27 22:08:36 UTC
Dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 425434 ***
Comment 17 Scott Couston 2009-08-14 22:45:13 UTC
This is not a dupe - It was not fixed in 10.3 and made worse in 11.0 and is now a disaster in 11.1
Comment 18 Lubos Lunak 2009-09-10 13:37:54 UTC
As already said, this has been handled for KDE4 and probably won't be done for KDE3, nothing more to do here.