[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#981352: "VPN Connections" menu entry moves around and is frustrating to click

[Enrico Zini]

Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Version: 1.8.10-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

thank you for maintaning Network Manager!

The "VPN Connections" submenu in the NM applet appears after the WIFI
connections list, and the WIFI connections list tends to often refresh
once the menu is open. ISTR opening the menu triggers a rescan?

The result is that often I want to turn on a VPN, open the menu, and
before I managed to click on the VPN I want to activate, everything has
suddenly moved, and I end up either activating a different VPN, or
clicking somewhere else.

Ideally, moving the "VPN Connections" submenu above the available
networks list would work around this issue.

More generally, I guess the part of the applet popup that refreshes
while the popup is open should go right at the bottom.

Even more generally, the menu refreshing while open is still tricky, as
a badly timed refresh could still cause me to connect to a wifi network
I didn't intend to connect. I guess the applet could use an invariant
that options can appear at the end, or get grayed out, but not change
position?

But yeah, it would be plenty enough to me if I could reliably hit the
VPN I want to connect to. It frustrates me multiple times during a work
day :(


Enrico


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.28-10
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.24.5-1
ii  libnm0                   1.14.6-2+deb10u1
ii  libnma0                  1.8.20-1.1
ii  libsecret-1-0            0.18.7-1
ii  network-manager-openvpn  1.8.10-1

network-manager-openvpn-gnome recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn-gnome suggests no packages.

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