Bug 1046701 – NetworkManager hides DNS resolver search list setting in Fedora 20

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 11:35 -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> On 12/26/2013 09:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Are you sure you're not confusing the GNOME network configuration
> > applet with nm-connection-editor? Both exist in both F19 and F20,
> > nm-c-e has a few more things to twiddle than the GNOME applet. If I
> > understand the setting you're talking about, I still see it in
> > nm-c-e on the 'IPv4 Settings' tab
> I suppose that's possible, but I don't remember ever running
> nm-connection-editor. I thought that I gained access to the setting in
> question through one of the right-click menus accessible by
> right-clicking the icons in the bar at the top of the screen. Was
> nm-connection-editor available from there prior to Fedora 20?

Er. I don't honestly recall entirely. I think at some point that may
have run nm-c-e not a GNOME tool, but I could certainly be wrong.

> I think it's a bug that the only way to access this setting is through
> nm-connection-editor. How would anyone know to run
> nm-connection-editor to access settings? I don't even think this is a
> particularly advanced setting.

We don't second guess GNOME's design decisions. If it's a bug, it's a
bug in GNOME, and would be best off filed there.
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