Tentatively marking bitesize. It's not *extremely* simple to fix, but it should just be a matter of rearranging the UI a bit to allow for a button or something to call PackageKit and provide a way to list and install the right packages.
** Tags added: bitesize -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370210 Title: gui should explain that vpn is not available Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager Bug 278153 was originally about the fact that if the openvpn plugin is not installed, the VPN-related options in networkmanager are just grayed out (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18218320/screenshot.png) with no indication of why, or what can be done to fix it. Bug 278153 is now about installing the plugins by default which is apparently difficult or controversial. It looks like the GUI does now now whether the plugin is available or not, because it disables the options (rather than eg just crashing or erroring when you try to use them.) So this bug could be fixed by displaying a label in that dialog saying "VPN support is not installed" as well as disabling the controls. It's not perfect but it would at least give people a clue what to do next. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/370210/+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
