Bug 679119

Summary: knetworkmanager (4.6.x) does not show the GSM connection icon in the system tray menu
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: Xavier Callejas <xavier>
Component: KDE4 ApplicationsAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: ctrippe, forgotten_--EoyBps8f, gagarin.gtn, xavier
Version: Final   
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Hardware: All   
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Attachments: An screenshot showing the created connection but not showed in system tray menu of knetworkmanager

Description Xavier Callejas 2011-03-12 15:28:44 UTC
Created attachment 418973 [details]
An screenshot showing the created connection but not showed in system tray menu of knetworkmanager

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20110222 Firefox/4.0b12


Hi,

I have plugged in my GSM modem (ZTE), the modem is recognized and knetworkmanager show a "Create GSM connection icon", so I create it with my carrier settings with the name "Tigo3G" for example, the connection is created but knetworkmanager does not show in the system tray and icon/menu item a for the "Tigo3G" to be able to connect.

If I set "connect automatically" in the "Tigo3G" connection settings, knetworkmanager will start the connection automatically but you won't be able to connect/disconnect manually.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in your GSM modem
2. Create a GSM connection in the networkmanager connections manager (KDE)
3. The created connection won't display in the system tray menu of knetworkmanager
Actual Results:  
The created connection won't display in the system tray menu of knetworkmanager

Expected Results:  
The created connection should be listed in the system tray menu of knetworkmanager
Comment 1 Christian Trippe 2011-03-12 17:49:52 UTC
In general you should use the NetworkManager-plasmoid and not knetworkmanager but this will not help you directly in this case due to bug 673755
Comment 2 Xavier Callejas 2011-03-12 21:06:54 UTC
hey you are right! I replaced networkmanager-kde for networkmanager-plasmoid and it is more powerful! openSUSE 11.4 should bring the plasmoid as default instead of the system tray applet.

I can see now my GSM connection and I can activated/deactivated.

Does this bug should be active?
Comment 3 Christian Trippe 2011-03-13 20:29:11 UTC
AFAIK the plasmoid is used in a default new installation (not sure about an upgrade from 11.3). And you can have the plasmoid in the system tray as well.

I leave the bug open for the moment, but will try to gather some information how knetworkmanager bugs should be handled.
Comment 4 Christian Trippe 2011-05-02 11:19:35 UTC
*** Bug 690322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2011-12-08 19:42:49 UTC
closing since knetwrokmanager won't get any updates and 673755 handles the rest.