Sorry, I had overlooked your message in my inbox. In Hardy I have setup a static address, and right now when I click on "Connection information" it tells me "no valid connections available". Regarding how to treat this issue, I have quite a few considerations to share:
1) I don't know why NetworkManager does not rely on /etc/network/interfaces, but at first sight it seems terribly wrong to create another configuration system. Why is NetworkManager not a GUI to interact with interfaces?? 2) It is even more strange that the IP is only allocated at logon time; plenty of users have more than one computer at home, and quickly even the most basic users will want to share stuff, e.g. with NFS, and then you need an always on address, preferably static because it is easy to use hosts; no need to mess with DNS (been there, regretted it). 3) There are plenty of situations where users are advised to check/change stuff on interfaces, regardless of distributions; having another system looks just plain wrong. One even expects that NetworkManager applet changes the file interfaces. Now, I like very much to have the network icon there. Networking is often subject to failures, and having it handy is definitely a good idea. Being able to quickly check net info is nice. I even would like to have more stuff there. Yeah, I know about System/Administration/Network Tools. I believe a fair numbers of users will end up changing the file interfaces, without realizing NetworkManager is another setup; and then believe, as I did, there is a bug. And then loose the function of a nice tool. How to treat it? - preferably use only /etc/network/interfaces (but I know too little about NetManager to be sure this makes sense). - just show what's coming from ifconfig (showing "no valid active messages" is simply not good) I agree with you (Peteris) that it is a policy decision, but the first impression the user gets is one of a bug. And in politics, perception becomes truth :) (I see it now as a design bug) -- [hardy] 'Connection Information' is greyed out in pop-up menu when right clicking on Network Manager applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
