Aha, so that is the correct dialog to add a VPN connection. Unfortunately, because it's accessed from two different spots and gives no indication that it does indeed handle VPN until you start clicking things, it's very disorienting to arrive here.
Perhaps the "VPN Connections" and "Edit Connections..." menu items should be somehow merged, perhaps as "Network settings". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1206187 Title: Can't configure VPN connections Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If I click the NM icon in the top bar, go to the VPN Connections -> submenu, and click Configure VPN..., I get the dialog to configure network connections (e.g. wired, wireless), not VPN connections. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.0-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Jul 29 10:46:01 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-applet IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-07 (82 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.14 metric 9 MarkForUpload: True NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1206187/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
