Please improve the icon for the authentication dialog, which connects me via OpenConnect to my VPN provider

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

The current one only looks blurry in Plank.

[danirabbit]

Can you post a screenshot of the issue please?

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

I must confess, I had to install the OpenConnect VPN client via the AppCenter. This is also the cause of my issue, isn't it? Then maybe it would make sense to extend the network manager in elememtary OS so that it can set up different VPN connections by default.

Sure, i can provide the following screenshot

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

So is this issue more about a handsome fallback icon?

[danirabbit]

Can you provide more steps to reproduce the issue? How can I get to the dialog pictured in the screenshot?

It looks like whatever application this is is missing a .desktop file which would point to the high resolution icon.

I'm going to move this to os-patches since this doesn't seem to be an icons issue

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

Thanks for getting back! @danrabbit

Not sure about moving the issue.

When it comes to the icon itself, can it have anything to do with elementary/icons#808?

To the steps:

1. I want to set up a new VPN connection. Therefore I start switchboard-plug-network. Select VPN. If I want to add a new connection, I only find the OpenVPN and PPTP options by default. Unfortunately, I need the OpenConnect VPN client package at this point, which I install via the AppCenter.

2. If I have now set up this connection and connect the VPN in switchboard-plug-network, from now on a window will pop up each time asking for the access data for my data center. Plank then shows the described blurred icon.

In this context I also wonder if you don't want to include the OpenConnect package in the settings by default.

[janxkoci]

I'm using vpnc (Cisco-compatible VPN client) and it integrates directly into the UI - I activate my VPN connection in the network indicator and there is no further dialog, just a notification about success with the connection. I checked apt search openconnect and it seems OpenConnect has this kind of integration provided with the network-manager-openconnect package. If it doesn't work, try network-manager-openconnect-gnome.

Disclaimer: In my case I use either network-manager-vpnc or network-manager-vpnc-gnome to get this integration, but I can check which one exactly only later as now I'm on different laptop at work.

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

@janxkoci See above. I have already installed the appropriate plugin.
I suspect that your VPN is not password authenticated, right? For me, this necessary step of entering the password first opens the dialog.

[janxkoci]

It is pasword authenticated (actually it has also group password) but I have it saved, so it doesn't ask for it.

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

Did you then have the dialog box at least the very first time you entered your password?

[janxkoci]

No I set it in the switchboard before first connection (I got a config file from my institute that contains the settings, that can be opened from the network plug UI). Thus I never seen the dialog, the UI I used has a normal network icon.

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, this probably won't help to solve this issue. Or do you have an idea?

[janxkoci]

Well I see this icon in normal wi-fi password dialogs. So I installed Iconoscope (com.github.santileortiz.iconoscope) from AppCenter and found the icon there - it's from elementary theme and it's only available in few resolutions (adwaita/GNOME has more variants, including 256p hi-res), although it says it's scallable svg.

Maybe that's the issue? Could the team provide more resolution variants, @danrabbit ?

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

So you suspect that the blurred icon in my dialogue is due to the fact that the dialogue cannot fall back on an icon with a high enough resolution?

[janxkoci]

Could be, but now I'm thinking why it's even falling back to that icon? My wifi password dialog has wifi icon and vpn setup dialog has network icon. This lock icon should be in a dialog, as designed, and not in a dock. So maybe it should fallback to different icon entirely.

Btw I'm not a dev, just another user trying to help.

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

Thank you for your support, this is very valuable! Maybe developers can solve that as soon as they find the time.