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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Network Manager Icon and details of Applet | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 | Reporter: | Scott Couston <scott> |
| Component: | Network | Assignee: | Will Stephenson <wstephenson> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | scott |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 11.0 | ||
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| Found By: | Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 508513 | ||
| Attachments: | screen shot | ||
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Description
Scott Couston
2008-09-11 10:26:25 UTC
This does not look like a bug report but more like a feature request. Tambet, please have a look at it. Scott, I would recommend you to ask that directly on the NM-developers mailing list. I don't really understand the problem. There's no removed functionality, everything you mention is still there. Agree if the was no loss in functionality I have no issue. Its a bug because of removal of functionality - The icon that sits in the system tray does not provide any information that was present in 10.3 - It does not even provide an IP number and netmask and DNS servers that are configured by Network Manager in Yast. If you want to retain current and past functionality this could be done easily by right and left click on Applet *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 423881 *** Comment #3 was about NetworkManager-gnome. Dependant on bugs https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423881 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489542 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498307 Dependant on bugs https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423881 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489542 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498307 If this bug had been actioned in 10.3 we would not be having all the dependant and consequential bugs listed above bugs above. This was the first bug opened that would restore the Network Manager's Original Applet and above details and we would not be facing continual issues with current bugs where there is no control over the Network Connection if a user chooses Network Manager in stead of IFUP. I have re-opened purely so that current programers can see what functions the original Applet had and how they were removed in 10.3 to create the horrible situation we are in with other dependant bugs. We can start by restoring the 10.2 applets design and then go to fix the other issues associated with Network Manager in the above references. Created attachment 288225 [details]
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#10 ...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 *** Bug 423881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** QA - Bug seems to be inactive in Assignment knetworkmanager4 can show the following information in the tooltip "interface:type" << "interface:name" << "interface:driver" << "interface:status" "interface:designspeed" << "interface:hardwareaddress" << "interface:bitrate" "ipv4:address" << "ipv4:nameservers" << "ipv4:domains" << "ipv4:routes" "wired:carrier" "wireless:strength" << "wireless:ssid" << "wireless:mode" << "wireless:accesspoint" "wireless:security" << "wireless:rsnflags" "wireless:frequency" "cellular:strength" "cellular:network" By Tooltip do you mean a simple right clock on the Icon in the system tray that was removed back in 10.3 and replaced by no relevant information what so ever. In 10.3 NM Icon a simple right click displayed Eth0 connection if only active but included VPN or WIFI depending on the active connection type. DHCP or Manual IP IP number Subnet DNS Servers x 2 if Present Gateway IP if present RX packets received TX packets sent All this information disappeared without reason between 10.3-11.0 from memory. This bug has been progressiveness open since I believe 10.3 in one form or another, simply to replace the information that the right click offered which was removed without technical reasoning. Regards - I am happy to have this left as resolved an fixed as you have indicated. From a person perspective I can still not believe it has taken such a lengthy process just to put back what information was removed without logical nor functional reason for over 3 different releases of Opensuse. I am sure you can realise the user frustration at very simple requests to reinstate what what once present by a simple right click. I have posted https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207425 as a Junior Job to reimplement this dialog containing the RX/TX bytes and connection time. The rest of the info is shown as a tooltip on active connections - click the system tray icon to show the status popup, then simply hover the mouse over the connection. When there can be multiple connections active at the same time, this is IMO a more elegant and less clicky solution than a top level menu item showing a dialog containing a tab for each connection. I could not agree more Will in comment #16 and I am so glad that after much personal effort and disappointed by having this issue open since the details vanished in 10.3, is has now been corrected. Many Thanks |