[Pkg-swan-devel] Bug#1020495: Error: unable to load VPN connection editor - on Identity tab at Gnome Network manager VPN

[Patrik Svestka]

Hi Tobias,

This is identical email I have sent you yesterday, but I noticed I have
send the mail only to you and not the tracker so I'm resending it so it
will be recorded also there.

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Thank you for your reply.  I see, now I understand the issue.  Isn't
this issue of the packaging?

If it is loaded dynamically, how come that I got this error?  I presume
the missing the gtk4 library version is the culprit.

How do I make sure that the package was build with `--with-gkt4`?  I
have installed it via apt.  Must I build my own custom package for
that?

Regards,

Patrik


On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 11:44 +0200, Tobias Brunner wrote:
> Hi Patrik,
> 
> >     * What was the outcome of this action?
> >     With the `nm-connection-editor` you can edit it, but you can
> > not do that via network-manager!
> 
> That's because the settings app uses GTK 4, while `nm-connection-
> editor` 
> still uses GTK 3.  In order for the strongSwan plugin to work with
> GTK 
> 4, it has to be built with `--with-gkt4`.  That creates an additional
> version of the editor that's linked against GTK 4 (besides the one 
> linked against GTK 3).  These are actually two shared libraries that
> are 
> loaded dynamically at runtime by the main editor plugin depending on 
> whether it's loaded by a GTK 3 or 4 application.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobias