Unassigning myself. A way to install the VPN plugins should probably be
provided, but it's not something I can spend time on to land in Precise
now, especially past Feature Freeze. I'll look into this after the
Precise release in case something simple could be arranged.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) => (unassigned)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370210
Title:
gui should explain that vpn is not available
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: network-manager
Bug 278153 was originally about the fact that if the openvpn plugin is
not installed, the VPN-related options in networkmanager are just
grayed out (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18218320/screenshot.png)
with no indication of why, or what can be done to fix it. Bug 278153
is now about installing the plugins by default which is apparently
difficult or controversial.
It looks like the GUI does now now whether the plugin is available or
not, because it disables the options (rather than eg just crashing or
erroring when you try to use them.)
So this bug could be fixed by displaying a label in that dialog saying
"VPN support is not installed" as well as disabling the controls.
It's not perfect but it would at least give people a clue what to do
next.
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