It would be really nice if there was a way to view the details of your network connection. There seems to be no way to see which DNS server I'm using in the GUI. When wondering why your internet connection is not working, this is a major blocker. Right now my alternative is running: nmcli dev list iface wlan0 | grep DNS Reproducible: Always
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Can't believe I'm dup'ing myself after 2½ months. It's hard to believe I'm the only one having this problem. What are other people doing. Could I have a bit of feedback from the devs?
We already decided once and did a survey what information to display. Given that plasma-nm should be primarily for regular users we don't want it to be bloated with unnecessary stuff. What might be important and relevant for you doesn't need to be relevant for the rest of people. I already wanted to implement a configuration for people like you so they can configure whatever information they want to display, but right now I don't have time to do that or there are more important things to do. You can of course try to implement this yourself :)
Hi Jan Yes I remember that survey, and I'm not asking for you to change the outcome of that. Only that there is some way to get more information. We can't pretend that this information is important when things don't work. Can't we we add a "> More" foldout in the bottom of the Details tab?
@jan If I converted my php-foo to qml-foo and implemented a "> More" foldout for the applet's details tab, would it even be accepted or can you just deny it now?
Depends whether it would be accepted by usability guys, but I can imagine that something like that could be a solution. If you give me some time I could try to implement this myself.
@Jan: Where could one find the relevant source code?
In applet/contents/ui you can find QML files for the applet. In libs/models you find source of the details, specificaly in libs/models/networkmodelitem.cpp.
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I do not try to undermine the survey (haven't seen it actually). But the "Details" pane currently shows the MAC address, which is arguably more technical and less useful than the DNS server IP.
Git commit 0b3ae9737cc83a14deded51dcf55c0c2557f8cb6 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Francesco Bonanno. Committed on 05/12/2019 at 21:09. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [Applet] Show more information in the Details tab Summary: I apologize if I annoy someone with this request, as here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361414 I've seed it has been discussed the issue, and it was done a survey to choice the displayed info. But, as written in comment #10 of the bug, I don't know why a mac address has more relevance for an average user than an nameserver or a gateway. And usually the average user don't see this section of the plasmoid. So, I'm submitting to the review process this patch, with hope of being accepted. It adds just the possibility to see, with the related present info, the current dns (first one) for IPv4 and v6 connectivity, and the current default gateway for the IPv4 connectivity. FIXED-IN: 5.18.0 Reviewers: jgrulich Reviewed By: jgrulich Subscribers: ngraham, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24940 M +19 -1 libs/models/networkmodelitem.cpp https://commits.kde.org/plasma-nm/0b3ae9737cc83a14deded51dcf55c0c2557f8cb6