Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 365791
nm-applet gives no feedback if NetworkManager is not running
Last modified: 2008-09-29 22:43:30 EDT
Description of problem: If I start nm-applet but NM isn't running, I get no feedback about the problem. The nm-applet icon is not displayed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
this is sort of by design... what would you expect to happen? show the disconnected icon? part of the problem is that there isn't a good way to launch the applet when NM is running because one is a root process, and the other is a user process. So when nm-applet is installed, it runs all the time, but hides itself when NM isn't running. That way people who want to disable NetworkManager don't have to look at the applet. I don't really see a good way of ensuring that people who don't use NetworkManager don't get annoyed by the applet, but also ensure that everything will just work when installing a box and wanting to use NM.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported during the development of Fedora 8. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are changing the version of this bug to '8'. If this bug still exists in rawhide, please change the version back to rawhide. (If you're unable to change the bug's version, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help and we apologize for the interruption. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
closing due to inactivity