Occasionally, when I leave/join a wireless network or disable/enable the radio via the killswitch, plasna-nm does not update the tray icon correctly. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disconnect from the wireless network you are connected to 2. Reconnect Actual Results: Sometimes, the icon in the systray is not updated correctly. The status indicator in the "expanded" applet still shows "Connected" though, and NM-aware applications correctly consider the network available. Expected Results: The icon should always visualize the current connection state. I will attach a screenshot demonstrating the issue.
Created attachment 85735 [details] A screenshot demonstrating the issue You can see an active wireless connection and the green "Connected" indicator - but the tray icon says the wireless is disconnected.
Can you try to update to 0.9.3.3? What version of NetworkManager do you have?
Wow, that was a fast reaction :) It seems 0.9.3.3 was uploaded to Debian experimental, so I will install it later today and see if the issue comes back. Of course, I only see it happen once a week or so, so it will be hard to tell. I am using NetworkManager 0.9.8.0.
Oh, 0.9.8.0 is really old, I strongly recommend to update to 0.9.8.8, which is also in Debian experimental repositories, it is also necessary for plasma-nm 0.9.3.3.
And so I did upgrade the two of them... now my wireless is completely broken. plasma-nm displays the networks, but fails to recognize even those listed in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections (syslog says NM found them, but plasma-nm does not seem to care), and it fails to connect or even react to entering the password. I had to go down to the basement to get wired internet access. I am not sure though whether it's NetworkManager's fault though or plasma-nm or something else... the only error in the logfile is for ModemManager being unable to start (which was updated as well, it seems), but fixing that doesn't help. So for now I'll downgrade everything again and wait till they get this stuff working at all. There's also no dependency from the plasma-nm 0.9.3.3 package to a network-manager >= 0.9.8.8, it just requires 0.9.8, I assume that's a bug?
Try to update also modemmanagerqt and networkmanagerqt, because these are required for this version. Also after NetworkManager update, you have to restart your computer, or at least restart everything.
The new versions (actually, new SONAMES) of modemmanagerqt and networkmanagerqt were automatically pulled in, and I did a full reboot - didn't help.
plasma-nm 0.9.3.3 was recently uploaded to unstable, so I installed it for further testing. Now the icon looks wrong all the time - whenever I am connected to a wireless network, it shows the wireless icon together with a question mark. I am not sure what this means, the tooltip doesn't explain the question mark. I am still using networkmanager 0.9.8.0, after my experiences with the newer version last week - and because the Debian plasma-nm 0.9.3.3 does not depend on a newer network-manager.
You definitely need newer version of NetworkManager, because we use properties introduced in NM 0.9.8.4, which is the reason why it doesn't work for you.
After a suspend/resume cycle the plasma widget didn't show any network-connections anymore! I have installed plasma-nm (0.9.3.3-2) and network-manager (0.9.8.8-4) both from debian unstable.
I now switched my machine to systemd, which fixed NM 0.9.8.8 (in Debian unstable now) and the question mark in plasma-nm went away. So far, the issue originally described in this bug did not appear again. Jan, feel free to close it, I will re-open the bug if I see it happen again. (In reply to comment #10) > After a suspend/resume cycle the plasma widget didn't show any > network-connections anymore! > I have installed plasma-nm (0.9.3.3-2) and network-manager (0.9.8.8-4) both > from debian unstable. The NM in Debian unstable only works when systemd is used. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743128 . That's totally unrelated to this bug, though admittedly it's exactly the symptom I described in #5 .
Created attachment 85931 [details] Screenshot of the freshly bootet desktop Not sure if that's related, but the icon Plasma-NM shows immediately after startup, while waiting for the user to enter the password, is misleading: It shows an established connection, even without that spinning icon. I would have expected the spinning icon and the question mark, which is what I usually get while the connection is being established.
Git commit 0226a243f0f6ee15ae87674c8711cc7f5dace2d3 by Jan Grulich. Committed on 22/04/2014 at 09:20. Pushed by grulich into branch '0.9.3'. Display spinner after startup when connection is activating M +3 -6 libs/declarative/connectionicon.cpp http://commits.kde.org/plasma-nm/0226a243f0f6ee15ae87674c8711cc7f5dace2d3
Git commit 8b0ebf8500390a8bd3e0f84456781f83aebdb309 by Jan Grulich. Committed on 22/04/2014 at 09:20. Pushed by grulich into branch 'frameworks'. Display spinner after startup when connection is activating M +3 -6 libs/declarative/connectionicon.cpp http://commits.kde.org/plasma-nm/8b0ebf8500390a8bd3e0f84456781f83aebdb309