Bug 490679

Summary:	When airplane mode switch is turned off, Wi-Fi remains disabled
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Henning <boredsquirrel>
Component:	Networks widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	materka, me, nate, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	6.2.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Henning 2024-07-22 22:45:40 UTC

When middle-clicking on the wifi icon, airplane mode turns on. This, like on Android, is expected to dynamically disable wifi and WWAN.

Middle clicking on the icon again, disables the Airplane mode, but Wifi stays off. Expected would be for it to turn back to the normal state.

There may be some architectural change needed, so that Airplane mode is used as a separate state, with separate settings. When disabling it, the normal state is restored.

Currently, you need to disable airplane mode and then enable wifi. Enabling wifi also doesnt turn off airplane mode automatically.

Fedora 40 Kinoite

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-07-26 22:59:26 UTC

Can confirm on regular Fedora 40 with everything KDE compiled from source. Noticed it on a recent plane trip.

Comment 2 Henning 2024-07-27 13:40:15 UTC

this only happens when middle-clicking the icon.

Pressing Airplane switch in the popup menu works as expected.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-07-29 18:53:58 UTC

Interestingly enough, I can't reproduce it today, via either way of turning airplane mode on and off. Seems something fixed it recently!

Comment 4 Henning 2024-07-29 20:16:04 UTC

Same at my side. Nice!

Comment 5 ratijas 2024-07-30 10:01:43 UTC

As long as you don't power off your system, it remembers the state of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and any other wireless interfaces before they were disabled by the Airplane mode. But such state is not persistent and will be lost after a reboot.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2024-07-31 16:25:48 UTC

I think that's a wholly different issue. Can you open a new bug report about it?

Comment 7 ratijas 2024-08-04 12:51:53 UTC

I don't get it what are we talking about, and what was fixed here?

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2024-08-05 21:24:16 UTC

We're talking about the original bug report, which is what middle-clicking the applet compactrepresentation to disable airplane mode doesn't turn wifi back on. I was able to reproduce that in the recent past, but not anymore, leading to the conclusion that it got fixed by something.

Comment 9 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:25:55 UTC

Bulk transfer as requested in T17796