Hi Dan, There's this bug currently open in Ubuntu: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/370210
Essentially, it's about the fact that VPN plugins, as they are not included in the "main" distribution but in "universe" and not installed by default, it tends to be somewhat unclear to users that additional packages need to be installed to enable VPN support. This would be the first logical step, to then work towards making the plugins installed by default. I'm suggesting for a way to bring up a dummy package, or some sort of existence check for plugins, to allow network-manager to notify users that the support for the VPN plugins is not installed when no VPN plugins can be found. Is this at all possible? I think it would make sense to have NetworkManager itself be aware of the presence of it's plugins, and then be able to tell users that support is not installed, either through a different layout of the VPN tab, or a specific behaviour of the Add button. That kind of piece of code could then either be patched in a distribution to allow to hook in a package manager to load the necessary plugins, or to just display a message with the correct commands required to install the additional packages. Another option could be to ship some other generic VPN plugin that only mentions that VPN support is not available or not installed, which could then be removed by a package manager when the openvpn or vpnc plugins are installed. I'm also ready to look into coding the necessary stuff to do that, I just wanted to run this by the list to see if there were design suggestions, or a reason why this is not a good idea. What do you think? Mathieu Trudel [email protected] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
