Bug 1715143
Summary: | No GUI route to nm-connection-editor | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | klaatu <klaatu> |
Component: | network-manager-applet | Assignee: | NetworkManager Development Team <nm-team> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.2 | CC: | acardace, atragler, bgalvani, fgiudici, lrintel, michael.scheiffler, rkhan, sukulkar, thaller, till, vbenes |
Target Milestone: | rc | ||
Target Release: | 8.0 | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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Last Closed: | 2021-01-22 14:09:06 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1853358 | ||
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Description
klaatu
2019-05-29 17:09:42 UTC
I went to generate a .desktop file for nm-connection-editor and found that the RPM already includes one. Maybe this is a GNOME bug. When I type either 'nm-connection-editor' or 'Network Connections' into the GNOME dashboard search bar, nothing appears. After GNOME searches for a while, it suggests an "obsolete" GNOME Shell Extension, which I installed but could not locate in the GUI). Same for me on Fedora 31. A launcher would exist in /usr/share/applications/nm-connection-editor.desktop but it's not shown in the applications overview nor can be found in the search bar. As far as I can remember, this was no problem in Fedora 30. revisit in rhel-8.3. Currently, gnome requires nm-connection-editor. So, there are multiple network GUIs installed. That is the reason to hide nm-c-e in gnome. The solution should be that gnome no longer to depend on nm-connection-editor, so that the package is not installed by default. Then, when a user explicitly installed nm-c-e, we would also show the icon in gnome. Thank you for reporting this. Unfortunately, we don't have the capacity to fix this in the foreseeable future and therefore I will close this. In case this issue is more important than we estimated, please re-open this or file a new bug. follow up: this is now fixed upstream. Read commit message for summary of the latest events: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/commit/297610d0c5b21b51d3bdf606317dd701a7e6524a |