Jaunty alpha 6 still can't seem to make a static IP connection via knetworkmanager; I have the beta but haven't tried it yet.
I'm in general agreement with the commentators above who believe this app needs serious work now. I find it has many annoying features: 1) integration with kwallet - Regardless of whether the KDE devs think everything should use the wallet, as a user it's a pain in the neck. I tried disabling the wallet entirely upon which knetworkmanager crashed and took the panel with it. What was wrong with the 4.1 functionality where knetworkmanager kept its own passwords? 2) I cannot seem to launch a connection by double-clicking it in the list displayed by Manage Connections. I had a stored configuration for my router, but clicking on the tray icon to bring up the list of SSIDs didn't launch it either. This one had a static IP address so it may be related to the bugs reported here. 3) Adding a static IP to the list is a user nightmare. First off, the Add button doesn't launch a separate dialog with entries for the address/netmask/gateway. Instead you have to click in the listing window and type over the blue areas. It took me quite a while to figure this out. Plus you cannot navigate across fields in that list with the tab button. You must enter an item like the address, then leave the list, then go to the next item. This whole process needs a simple Add dialog box. I would say that fixing problems with knetworkmanager should be a critical priority for either the KDE devs or the Ubuntu devs. Problems in a function as critical as user-level network management will absolutely discourage anyone converting from another platform like Windows to Kubuntu. I'd also like to see a simple method at installation to enable the network connection during boot rather than requiring user intervention. I'm sure I could figure out how to do this from browsing the Web and editing config files, but it should be much easier to configure by default. Not everyone running Ubuntu is using a laptop; for people on wired networks, or people with static addresses, the current system of pushing network connections to the user level makes things more difficult than they need to be. If I were in an office setting, I'd expect my computer to connect to the network upon boot, not require me to run some application from the desktop. -- knetworkmanager under kde4 doesn't recognize the static IP connections that I have configured. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to knetworkmanager in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
