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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:37 +0200, Philipp Wendler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 14.06.2010 16:21, schrieb Shane Fagan:
> > I see you guys are planning the design of the networking menu. My
> > question is do you really need vpn in there? Is it something that we
> > need to expose to every user? Barely any desktop (or netbook) user uses
> > vpn at all they mainly use normal lan, dsl or mobile so why not add a
> > configure networks menu item instead as a catch all and add vpn if they
> > are using it? Thoughts?
> 
> Probably a lot of students, professors and university staff use VPN on
> their notebooks, as universities often require it if you want to use
> their WLAN. At least here in Germany. There are also people who work
> from home (at least occasionally) and need VPN to connect to their
> company's network.
> 
> So I definitely would like to have an easy way to start a VPN connection
> (directly in the indicator). It is like this even on my cellphone, which
> has very limited screen space. But it would be ok for me if the VPN
> options are only shown if a VPN connection has been configured.
> 
> Greetings, Philipp

Well im student myself and ive never used vpn myself. Im not saying
people dont use it but should it have a spot in the indicator I dont
think so. Im not saying remove it from the install im just saying use
network config instead of the configure vpn like it is now.

--fagan