Yeah, it's not limited to VPN. I use two adapters as well; each gets an entry in the main menu along with a few basic options, as well as (for WiFi) the first few nearby access points. The sub-menu is only needed if the access point I want isn't among the top few. (With Ethernet adapters, I don't have a sub- menu at all; everything is in the main menu.) So while that sub-menu is also usually broken / not available, I don't always need it.
With VPN, everything to do with VPN is in the sub-menu. So if sub-menus are broken, I lose all functionality. Obviously, fixing the bug would be best. But this bug is over two years old; it sounds like either the package is not being actively maintained (in which case we're sunk) or the developer doesn't know how to approach this issue (which is fair -- it could be in an underlying library, some really obscure race condition, etc) in which case maybe a simpler patch that helps some of us a lot would be better than nothing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779754 Title: NM status icon sometimes not clickable Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Sometimes lately after upgrade to Natty the network manager status icon is not possible to click on, nothing happens. When it happened now, it seems to be solved by restarting network-manager service ("sudo service network-manager restart"). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8.4~git.20110318t152954.9c4c9a0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686 Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog Date: Mon May 9 09:09:42 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) IpRoute: 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.130 metric 2 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=nb_NO:en LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-24 (15 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/779754/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
