Salutations, Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Scott Lavender and I am working with the Ubuntu Studio developers. I am contacting you specifically because of an issue Ubuntu Studio users are having with gnome-network-admin, specifically the 10_disable_interfaces.patch, which you attended more often than others in the gnome-network-admin changelog. gnome-network-admin is included with by default in Ubuntu Studio as network-manager was found to cause latency issues while recording audio, which you can recognize this was viewed as an appreciable problem given the nature of Ubuntu Studio. However, anyone attempting to configure networking after a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio are stymied due to the disabled interface in gnome-network-admin. You may view the bug here: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/570828">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/570828</a> What I am asking from you is removal of the 10_disable_interfaces.patch in gnome-network-admin for the upcoming Maverick release. This would allow Ubuntu Studio users, on a fresh install, to properly configure their networking to allow for internet access. Since it appears that network-manager is favoured over gnome-network-admin in a vanilla Ubuntu desktop installation, and therefore not installed by default, I would suggest that this would not be a regression for desktop users. I verified that gnome-network-admin is not installed on a vanilla Ubuntu desktop on my laptop (which uses a vanilla Ubuntu desktop installation) and by the release manifest page for Lucid: <a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.manifest">http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.manifest</a> Addressing this issue would resolve one of our user's greatest complaints. I look forward to further correspondence on this issue. Respectfully, Scott Lavender