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Bug 1715143 - No GUI route to nm-connection-editor
Summary: No GUI route to nm-connection-editor
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: network-manager-applet
Version: 8.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: NetworkManager Development Team
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Depends On: 1853358
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-05-29 17:09 UTC by klaatu
Modified: 2021-01-22 14:35 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-01-22 14:09:06 UTC
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Description klaatu 2019-05-29 17:09:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
There is no apparent way to reach nm-connection-editor from the GUI. You can get there by launching a terminal and typing nm-connection-editor, but there is no GUI avenue to the nm-connection-editor pane.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
VERSION_ID="8.0"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"

nm-connection-editor-1.8.10-5.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type nm-connection-editor into a terminal. Success!
2. Try to find the **General** tab in the Network,Wi-Fi, or Privacy panels of GNOME Settings. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere.

Actual results:
It seems the only way to reach the GUI panel called **General** is by launching it directly from the terminal, even though it seems like a panel that should be accessible from Wi-Fi or Network settings.

Expected results:
This is the only GUI panel providing a user with the ability to view or change their Firewall zone, so it should be accessible from the GUI (especially since it's a GUI panel) (that said, nmtui also appears to lack any zone information, but that's probably a separate bug).

Additional info:
Comment 1 klaatu 2019-05-29 17:23:44 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).
Comment 2 Michael 2019-09-22 08:25:21 UTC 
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.
Comment 3 Thomas Haller 2020-01-22 11:32:25 UTC 
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.
Comment 7 Antonio Cardace 2021-01-22 14:09:06 UTC 
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.
Comment 8 Thomas Haller 2021-01-22 14:35:11 UTC 
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
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