Bug 401551

Summary: The absence of network connection status at login screen
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Said Bakr <said.fox>
Component: Theme - BreezeAssignee: visual-design
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, kde, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Said Bakr 2018-11-29 22:42:22 UTC
SUMMARY
Unlike Gnome, the KDE login screen does not has any network status indicator. Here I don't mean by offering connection to all users or not, or even the ability of creating connection. I only meant by a status that shows the state of the network connection of the computer.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Turn on a computer that has Kubuntu 18.04 (probably any other version too) 
2. Wait till the login screen appears.
3. Look for any message or indicator about the default or the active network status.

OBSERVED RESULT
There is no any indicator about the network status.

EXPECTED RESULT
To see an indicator that describes the network status, such as which Wifi network is connected and what's the connection strength?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
MacOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 18.04
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.44.0
Qt Version: 5.9.5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Kernel  version: 4.15.0.39-generic
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-11-30 08:49:10 UTC
why?
Comment 2 Said Bakr 2018-11-30 08:59:17 UTC
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1)
> why?

For example, personal reason, I'm a web developer, and I run my own web server on my machine, commonly, I just need to turn on my computer without login to run the web server, so I need any way at the login screen telling me the status of the network connection.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-01-12 22:54:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 414062 ***