Bug 419288

Summary:	Prevent reordering of available connections
Product:	[Plasma] plasma-nm	Reporter:	Terényi, Balázs <balazs>
Component:	applet	Assignee:	Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	mosaulp, nate, nicktelindert
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.20.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427512
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Description Terényi, Balázs 2020-03-27 10:05:09 UTC

SUMMARY
When new wifi connections show up in the applet those which were already on the list get reordered. When I want to click on a connection, the list changes as new wifi SIDs appear, and I click on something else. This happens at least one time per day, when I want to connect to work VPN.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Connect to some wifi AP.
2. Click on the applet.
3. The available connection list shows up.
4. The first item is a configured VPN connection.
5. Click on this item exactly at the time when new available connections appear.

OBSERVED RESULT
You clicked on a wrong item.

EXPECTED RESULT
When the list gets new elements, those already on the list should not change their position.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSuSE Tumbleweed
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.14.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is an old problem, but very annoying. Many thanks if you solve it!

Comment 1 Elias 2020-10-16 07:10:58 UTC

In Plasma 5.20 it gets even worse. While typing in the password of the wifi AP you want to connect to, the list order changes and then you are typing in a password at a different AP. The chance to bring your password to a unwanted wifi AP is high.

Tested on KDE Neon with Plasma 5.20 from October 13, 2020.

Comment 2 Nick te Lindert 2020-11-07 21:05:08 UTC

(In reply to Elias from comment #1)
> In Plasma 5.20 it gets even worse. While typing in the password of the wifi
> AP you want to connect to, the list order changes and then you are typing in
> a password at a different AP. The chance to bring your password to a
> unwanted wifi AP is high.
> 
> Tested on KDE Neon with Plasma 5.20 from October 13, 2020.

Same issue here, the network widget is not usable at all for me. When i type in my password the connection list reorders and my password is being sent to the wrong network. I am really amazed how this behaviour can even end up in a stable release.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-11-19 21:26:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 389052 ***