I guess this is about both things because the memory leak was thought to be the cause of the stopping to work. I guess it was claimed as fixed because the memory leak probably _was_ fixed (that's what other said, I have no idea) but apparently it truned out to not be the cause of the stopping to work thing.
There was a bug report that perfectly describes the issue that is still not fixed, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/930563 but it was marked as a duplicate of this one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780602 Title: nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a while To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/780602/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs