[Bug 73788] Network profiles completely broken

[Psychotron]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: knetworkconf

Installed Kubuntu Edgy Eft today and while it's generally pretty great,
I'm a bit disappointed that Network Profiles are still (I reported it
for Breezy at that time) basically unusable :( That's how it appears to
me, at least. It's something essential for laptop users.

Well, the main problem is, that it is already completely unclear how
that profile stuff is generally supposed to work. E.g. what do those
buttons, like Load..., Save... or Create, actually do or what they refer
to? For instance, Load seems to bring the settings of the profile
instantly into effect, not just when pressing Apply/Ok. And at the same
time it seems to save something to somewhere. This is irritating. Or
Save, I understand as: save current settings into selected profile, but
nothing seems to happen. Or Create new, does it create an empty profile
or one containing the current settings?? So this needs some love,
conceptually.

Some more specific problems:
- the content of all profiles is the same (at least that's what the tooltips show)
- once saved (no idea how and when that actually happend, see above), settings for default gateway or DNS aren't saved later on. They are simply ignored.
- when changing settings of a device, like the IP of eth0, the change _instantly_ appears in _all_ profiles (again, this is what the tooltip shows)
- is there any sence in showing both, IP and device for the default gateway? What if they differ??
- at some point changing to admin mode fails. I just get a dialog with: "Conversation with su failed"
- I can delete profiles as normal user, but they are back when you launch the settings dialog again. (so apparently you can't, the UI should reflect that)

Greets Michael

** Affects: kdeadmin (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Network profiles completely broken
https://launchpad.net/bugs/73788