Bug 435981

Summary:	VPN connections are mixed with unregistered WIFI connections - VPN connection changes its position in the list
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	jerrys <j>
Component:	Networks widget	Assignee:	Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jgrulich, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screenshot screenshot2 screenshot3

Description jerrys 2021-04-21 00:43:31 UTC

SUMMARY
VPN connections are mixed with unregistered WIFI networks. When I want to connect to a VPN connection, I often miss-click on unregistered WIFI connection, because when I open the applet, WIFI starts scanning and adds new unregistered connections to the list on top of my registered VPN connections. This can happen  in a split of a second and results in miss-clicks.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add VPN networks to your network connections.
2. Ensure that there are more unregistered WIFI connections in your area.
3. To initiate VPN, click on network applet in System Tray
4. When network applet opens, you might see that unregistered WIFIs and VPN connections starts to reshuffle in the list of connections (depends on the WIFI SSID naming)
5. If you want to connect to your VPN connection and reshuffling starts at the same time, you might accidentally click on unregistered WIFI rather than the VPN connection, because the VPN connection changes its position in the list.

OBSERVED RESULT
VPNs and unregistered WIFI connections are mixed together which can result in miss-clicks when WIFI connections are being updated.

EXPECTED RESULT
VPN connections should have its own section to avoid reshuffling when WIFI networks are updated.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSuse Tumbleweed / 5.21.4
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Jan Grulich 2021-04-21 06:30:46 UTC

Configured VPNs should have higher priority and should be on top of available unknown networks. Can you share a screenshot?

Comment 2 jerrys 2021-04-21 07:10:01 UTC

Created attachment 137753 [details]
screenshot

Comment 3 jerrys 2021-04-21 07:14:40 UTC

Created attachment 137754 [details]
screenshot2

Here is another screenshot which is captured right after you enable Network WIFI. The VPNs are not there at all for a second and they jump in.

Comment 4 Jan Grulich 2021-04-21 07:15:43 UTC

I see on your screenshot that VPNs are above unknown wireless networks so it shouldn't happen your VPNs change order and no misclick is possible.

Comment 5 Jan Grulich 2021-04-21 07:17:02 UTC

(In reply to jerrys from comment #3)
> Created attachment 137754 [details]
> screenshot2
> 
> Here is another screenshot which is captured right after you enable Network
> WIFI. The VPNs are not there at all for a second and they jump in.

Probably not there because you were not connected before. Once they appear, they will show up again above your list of unknown networks and no jump should happen afterwards.

Comment 6 jerrys 2021-04-21 07:24:56 UTC

Created attachment 137755 [details]
screenshot3

You are right. Right now I am not able to reproduce.

I also noticed that when I mouse over the bottom the list jumps up. Is this a feature or bug?

Anyway you can probably close this. I will keep experimenting until I find it. Thx

Comment 7 Jan Grulich 2021-04-21 08:00:11 UTC

(In reply to jerrys from comment #6)
> I also noticed that when I mouse over the bottom the list jumps up. Is this
> a feature or bug?

I haven't seen anything like that. Can you maybe try to record it?

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2021-04-21 21:21:19 UTC

> I also noticed that when I mouse over the bottom the list jumps up. Is this
> a feature or bug?
That's Bug 387797.

Comment 9 jerrys 2021-04-23 05:31:43 UTC

Thank you all

Comment 10 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:25:54 UTC

Bulk transfer as requested in T17796