Bug 1411726

Summary:	Network notifications not showing on RHEL 7
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Oliver Ilian <oliver>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Florian Müllner <fmuellner>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	aloughla, atragler, bgalvani, jkoten, lmiksik, mclasen, mleitner, rkhan, sukulkar, tpelka
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Description Oliver Ilian 2017-01-10 11:45:16 UTC

Description of problem:
The network notification for connection to either Network, wireless or VPN connections are not shown in Gnome 3.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nm-connection-editor-1.4.0-2.el7.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.14.4-53.el7.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. disconnect from wired network
2. connect to wired network

Actual results:
No notification that you are connected to a network

Expected results:
Notification that you are connected to a network

Additional info:
We were looking to use the Cisco VPN option to present a message after the user logged in. This was working on RHEL 6, and works while using vpnc on the command line.

The settings in Dconf are not disabled (and I did reset them with the following commands:

gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-connected-notifications
gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-disconnected-notifications

gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-wifi-create
gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet suppress-wireless-networks-available

gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-vpn-notifications

Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2018-02-06 19:22:02 UTC

(In reply to Oliver Haessler from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> The network notification for connection to either Network, wireless or VPN
> connections are not shown in Gnome 3.

That's because GNOME 3 has built-in network indicator support instead of relying on nm-applet. That is this:

> The settings in Dconf are not disabled (and I did reset them with the
> following commands:
> 
> gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-connected-notifications
> gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-disconnected-notifications
> 
> gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-wifi-create
> gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet suppress-wireless-networks-available
> 
> gsettings reset org.gnome.nm-applet disable-vpn-notifications

configures a component that isn't used, and the one that *is* used doesn't follow those settings.

IMHO this is not a regression (if we changed the default browser from Firefox to Chromium, I would not expect the latter to follow the settings of the previous default browser either), but a feature request.

Also I would rather avoid copying nm-applet's settings one-by-one if possible, so can we pin down what feature exactly is missing? We do show notifications when a connection has been lost, what you want is another one when a connection has been established?

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-12 18:44:47 UTC

This behavior is unchanged since 7.0, I don't think it qualifies as a blocker.
The best option for the CSB is a small shell extension, maybe ?
We can probably help with writing one. Setting devack- to get this off the blocker list.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla Rules Engine 2018-02-12 18:44:54 UTC

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