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Bug 625160 - [enh] indicate lack of VPN plugins when trying to add VPN connections
[enh] indicate lack of VPN plugins when trying to add VPN connections
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: nm-applet
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-24 01:37 UTC by Ralph Loader
Modified: 2010-12-09 08:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Tooltip for Add button when no VPN plugin are installed (962 bytes, patch)
2010-10-15 14:22 UTC, Jiri Klimes
none Details | Review

Description Ralph Loader 2010-07-24 01:37:45 UTC
Bringing up the Network Connections dialog, and selecting the VPN dialog, the 'Add' button is greyed out and inactive, but there is no hint to the user as to what is wrong.

It would be useful if whenever the 'Add' button cannot be used, there was an indication as to why it is unavailable.

[After some digging and guess work, it turns out that I needed to install the NetworkManager-pptp package.]
Comment 1 Ralph Loader 2010-07-24 01:44:10 UTC
PS.  Package versions:

NetworkManager-0.8.1-1.fc14.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-1.fc14.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.0-1.git20100411.fc14.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-1.fc14.x86_64
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2010-07-27 21:40:09 UTC
Yeah, we need to tell the user about this somehow.
Comment 3 Jiri Klimes 2010-10-15 14:22:39 UTC
Created attachment 172425 [details] [review]
Tooltip for Add button when no VPN plugin are installed
Comment 4 Jiri Klimes 2010-10-15 14:24:14 UTC
Just a quick patch to show the information in the tooltip for "Add" button.
However, we should probably use some more visible means?
Comment 5 Dan Williams 2010-12-08 18:10:43 UTC
Yeah, but the tooltip patch is a good start. Feel free to commit, thanks!
Comment 6 Jiri Klimes 2010-12-09 08:32:54 UTC
Committed:
91bfc960f70fd2245a36a9fbed8f140154a8ce14 (master)
0330ecae2eec0d4dfccd57921f1992b8e245e2da (NMA_0_8)