Confirmed here (with network-manager 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni0-0ubuntu1 on Intrepid) - there is a VPN entry in NM applet menu which leads to the VPN connections dialog, but the Add button is disabled. Also, in ~/.xsession-errors it shows some messages:
(nm-connection-editor:6332): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_foreach: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed ** Message: nm_connection_list_new: failed to load VPN plugins: Couldn't read VPN .name files directory /etc/NetworkManager/VPN. ** (nm-connection-editor:6332): WARNING **: No connections defined (and /etc/NetworkManager/VPN indeed doesn't exist). Probably this is because no NM VPN packages are installed; so it's more a usability problem? I think NM applet shouldn't display the VPN menu entry if no VPN packages are installed (similar to NM 0.6 behavior). The VPN connection dialog would still be accessible through other way, though, so it would need at least some explanation or help text to tell the user how to install VPN packages (like "go to Applications -> Add/Remove -> install 'VPN Connection Manager (OpenVPN)' or 'VPN Connection Manager (PPP generic)'."). Much better would be of course to extend the VPN dialog to install these packages directly (similar to Samba installation when trying to share a folder). -- network manager doesn't allow to add vpn https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262347 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
