** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #785117 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785117
** Also affects: network-manager via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785117 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1704162 Title: Add on/off switch for network connectivity check Status in gnome-control-center: Confirmed Status in NetworkManager: Unknown Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: For Ubuntu 17.10, the Desktop Team would like to enable NetworkManager's connectivity check (LP: #997200) to detect captive portals. This has been supported by other GNOME distros for a couple years. Fedora in particular makes it opt out which we plan to do also in Ubuntu. This bug is a feature request to add an on/off switch for this connectivity check to gnome-control-center. I suggest that it be added to the Privacy panel although it might also work in the Network panel. I think there are two ways the switch could work. It could either write directly to a config file or it could use PackageKit to install or uninstall the distro-specific package that contains the connectivity config file. The advantage of the separate binary package is that it's easy to install or uninstall it for people that don't use gnome-control-center. See the upstream bug for a bit more details. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1704162/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
