On 11/24/20 8:00 PM, Graham White via networkmanager-list wrote: > From the point of view of a VPN plugin, what's the best way to > communicate status/log information with the user on their desktop? > > My scenario is for the NetworkManager-anyconnect VPN plugin, should the > connection fail for some reason, it would be nice to give the user a bit > more information as to why the connection attempt didn't work. I'm > thinking that integrating with the desktop notification system is > possibly the right way to go here but wanted to check if there's a best > practise or any advice you can give? >
On desktops that still support the appindicator or systray standards you should be able to use nm-applet, (If your distro builds it with the right support). I use it with Enlightenment and it shows a lock icon when I have openvpn enabled. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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