kde-4.3.1 networkmanager applet

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 12:34:45 UTC 2009


On Thursday 10 September 2009, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 09/10/2009 08:27 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> > The systray icon still needs UI work.  I put machine to sleep while using
> > the wifi, then woke up with wired eth connected.  It did not autoconnect
> > to wired.
> >
> > I could click on icon, choose 'system eth0' and then it connected.  But I
> > don't see any way to set it to autoconnect.  If I go to 'manage
> > connections', system eth0 isn't there, in fact, nothing is there under
> > wired.  I don't want to confuse things by creating a new connection,
> > since there seems to be a 'system eth0' concept already.
> >
> > I don't think it gives visual feedback.  nm-applet shows feedback while
> > connecting, and on mouseover tells me what it's doing.  This is
> > important.
> 
> Mouseover tells me what it is doing on a wireless connection. Haven't
> tried a wired one.
> 
Does it tell you it's 'connecting to xxx'?  That's what I wanted.

On wired, it doesn't even update the icon.  I'm connected wired right now, but 
the icon seems to show an unplugged rj45.



More information about the kde mailing list