In looking to attempt a fix of this Bug, with the hope of working to
apply the fix suggested by Dan Williamns in the mailing list post from
above, I have discovered the following :-
snip
Perhaps when there aren't any plugins, the list box could be grayed (or just
gtk_widget_hide() and pack
** Package changed: network-manager (Ubuntu) = network-manager-applet
(Ubuntu)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370210
Title:
gui should explain that vpn is not available
To manage
Unassigning myself. A way to install the VPN plugins should probably be
provided, but it's not something I can spend time on to land in Precise
now, especially past Feature Freeze. I'll look into this after the
Precise release in case something simple could be arranged.
** Changed in:
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
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Resetting from In Progress -- nothing has been done to implement this,
and now that -pptp is available by default, it's debatable whether there
should be much done. However, I think the Add button list should maybe
have a link to kickoff software-center or something else with proposed
VPN plugins.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = In Progress
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Matt Trudel (mathieu-tl)
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gui should explain that vpn is not available
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370210
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Confirming, as it is indeed greyed out, and multiple other bug reports
indicate this tends to be confusing to users.
I'm marking this as wishlist since it's not something really broken,
but rather an improvement we'd like to have to the software. There just
needs to be some discussion with
