GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 678360
Show interface names in the details page
Last modified: 2012-09-27 20:48:23 UTC
I'm running Gnome3 as a VirtualBox client with multiple wired network cards specified. All the wired network cards are of the same brand/name. I've setup a description of the network card in the network settings manager(network-settings-manager->network settings->wired->connection name). It would be great if it listed my name for the network connection in the network settings main dialog and also in the drop down list when pressing the icon on the toolbar. At the moment it just shows the device name and if they're all the same name I have to dig around in the settings to see what network I'm actually connecting to. Note that when creating a VPN it uses the description specified by the user correctly.
Which exact version of NetworkManager is this about?
Version: 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2 (obtained from the package information) Is there a way to determine the applet version from the command line? "--version" doesn't seem to work and there's no about box. This is the latest version from the Ubuntu 12.04 repos.
Yeah, the wired (and wifi too) devices should be differentiated with interface name and if connected with the connection name too. The thing dwells in gnome-control-center.
Created attachment 224838 [details] [review] For multiple devices, differentiate them with interface name Show "Wired (eth0)", "Wired (eth1)" in list if there are more devices of the same type.
Created attachment 224839 [details] [review] [PATCH] display "Interface Name" for Ethernet and Wi-Fi devices It should probably be done for Mobile broadband as well (not done in this patch).
Created attachment 224842 [details] [review] [PATCH] use more specific names for device types Ethernet and Wi-Fi are wide spreadterms and are more specific than generic "Wireless" and "Wired". Moreover, when devices such as InfiniBand or WiMax are added, the "Wireless" and "Wired" would become ambiguous. The names should be changed on some more places as well. (And probably also in code not visible to users).
See bug 677143
Review of attachment 224838 [details] [review]: I would rather that the differentiation was: - first through type: Wired Wired becomes: Ethernet Infiniband - secondly through connection type: Ethernet Ethernet becomes: USB Ethernet PCI Ethernet - thirdly through vendor/product: PCI Ethernet PCI Ethernet becomes: Intel Ethernet Realtek Ethernet Finally through using interface names: Intel Ethernet Intel Ethernet becomes: Intel Ethernet (eth0) Intel Ethernet (eth1)
Review of attachment 224839 [details] [review]: Looks fine to commit after 3.6 has branched.
Review of attachment 224842 [details] [review]: Ditto the other patch.
Renamed the bug, with the patch we want to keep, and I'll add comment 8 to bug with Dan's patches. Jiri, can you check with Dan about this?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 677143 ***