No VPN network indicator wired icons [$25]

Bug #1084536 reported by Jarrod Bagwell
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This bug affects 15 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
elementary Icons
Fix Released
Medium
Danielle Foré

Bug Description

This is a feature request. I would like that when a connection is made a vpn, that the current network connection status is reflected in the icon. What I have commonly seen in other versions of linux is a small padlock placed in the corner of the regular connection icon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Thu Nov 29 20:13:54 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Jarrod Bagwell (jarrodbagwell) wrote :
affects: elementaryos → elementaryicons
Changed in elementaryicons:
status: New → Confirmed
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in elementaryicons:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in elementaryicons:
milestone: none → 4.0
Cody Garver (codygarver)
tags: added: networkmanager
removed: amd64 apport-bug luna third-party-packages
tags: added: vpn
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in elementaryicons:
milestone: 4.0 → 3.2
Revision history for this message
Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote : Re: No VPN network indicator wired icon

There's actually more to this bug. From a duplicate:

"The current connection icon is just the spinning circle animation, this fails to give important information about what stage your connection is at when connecting. The icon should have 4 states, 1- disconnected 2- requesting authentication from the access point (bottom light green in old NM icon) 3- authenticating with the access point (both lights green in old NM icon), 4- connected."

summary: - Network connection indicator in Wing Panel does not change when
- connected to a vpn
+ No VPN network indicator wired icon
summary: - No VPN network indicator wired icon
+ No VPN network indicator wired icons
Changed in elementaryicons:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote : Re: No VPN network indicator wired icons

This bug is still present in Freya beta. Wireless icons have a padlock icon in the corner when using VPN but wired icons do not.

Changed in elementaryicons:
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
milestone: 3.2 → freya-rc1
Cody Garver (codygarver)
tags: added: bounty
summary: - No VPN network indicator wired icons
+ No VPN network indicator wired icons [$25]
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in elementaryicons:
assignee: nobody → Daniel Fore (danrabbit)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
milestone: freya-rc1 → freya-beta2
Changed in elementaryicons:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Jean-Christophe Baptiste (jc-baptiste) wrote :

Hi, was this feature removed?

I am in Loki now and the icons does not change after a successful VPN connection (both wired and wireless).

It is very important for security to have a permanent indicator that can be quickly checked.

Revision history for this message
Jean-Christophe Baptiste (jc-baptiste) wrote :

Sorry, it seemed that the issue was slightly different: NetworkManager did not detect that the tunnel was completely up for some reason, thus not updating the icon.

After changing some VPN settings and rebooting, the issue disappeared. Sorry for the noise (this ticket should probably be closed).

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