GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 665115
VPN connection is not shown in panel icon
Last modified: 2012-02-15 11:17:15 UTC
I am connected to VPN but the panel still shows standard wired or wireless network icon. The only way how to find out whether I am on VPN or not is to expand the network list. That is very inconvenient because VPN disconnects from time to time and I need to see whether some service doesn't work because my VPN connection crashed, or because the service is really down. Constantly expanding the network list is tiresome. Gnome-shell should use VPN symbolic indicators. There are icons "network-vpn-acquiring-symbolic.svg" and "network-vpn-symbolic.svg" inside the standard Gnome icon set specifically for this purpose (they were added in bug #644770). Please indicate when VPN is on.
Created attachment 202357 [details] on VPN over wifi, but the icon indicator shows plain wifi
Created attachment 202358 [details] on VPN over wired, but the icon indicator shows plain wired
Created attachment 202384 [details] [review] Network Menu: prefer VPN connections when showing the icon When VPN is active, and it's not the default routing, we should show the vpn icon, rather than the physical connection.
Does the patch also enable use of network-vpn-acquiring-symbolic.svg icon? It would be a waste not to use that icon when we already have it. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #4) > Does the patch also enable use of network-vpn-acquiring-symbolic.svg icon? It > would be a waste not to use that icon when we already have it. > > Thanks. Yes (in fact, that was already in use, as we preferred to show status for activating connections, rather than already active ones).
*** Bug 668069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can someone commit the patch?
Review of attachment 202384 [details] [review]: Uh, sure.
Attachment 202384 [details] pushed as 11637ba - Network Menu: prefer VPN connections when showing the icon
*** Bug 670126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***