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Bug 583431 - network manager applet should allow the user to select a location
network manager applet should allow the user to select a location
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 621767
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: nm-applet
0.7.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-21 10:46 UTC by Christophe Dumez
Modified: 2015-01-27 17:23 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christophe Dumez 2009-05-21 10:46:55 UTC 
Gnome network settings (proxy) now provides a location selector. This is really useful when you move a lot with your laptop and you have different proxy settings at each location.

I believe location switching could be automated though by allowing the user to select a location in a network profile, using network-manager-gnome. This way, when I'm connected to my network at work, it will automatically adapt my proxy settings (and same thing when I come back home).
Comment 1 Christophe Dumez 2009-05-21 10:48:48 UTC 
Apparently, I'm not the only one who is requesting this feature:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/better-integrate-proxy-settings-with-network-manager
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5327/
Comment 2 Thomas Haller 2015-01-27 17:23:05 UTC 
Still on the todo list, but closing as duplicate....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 621767 ***