knetworkmanager systray right-click and left-click behaviors have swapped places

I hear you. But looks like more KDE systray icons are moving towards this behavior.
Left click : bring up the application
Right click : options
Amarok does the same; left click brings up the main Amarok window, right click shows options : play, stop ..etc
you can try opening a wish at KDE bug tracker.
Have a look at this bug as well : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141862

Thanks for the pointer. That item is about something different, though: the filer seems to be asking to be able to right-click on individual networks and interfaces, rather than the knetworkmanager systray icon.

I'd argue that knetworkmanager isn't an application, so while the behavior is perfectly appropriate for amarok, but it is inappropriate for knetworkmanager. Counterexamples to amarok: kmix, kmenu, klipper, knotes. These are all accessories, or utilities - as is knetworkmanager.

It's a question of primary behavior, again. The new knetworkmanager behavior is to "show properties" by default. That might be ok if the user could change networks on the first screen of the "connection status" window, but that isn't possible.

[Expired for knetworkmanager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Please update the status of this bug. I'd argue that it represents a serious usability problem. The main purpose of network-manager-kde (gutsy name) is to enable a user to connect to a network. The most obvious thing to do would be to left-click on it. Therefore the list of available networks must be shown on left-click and not on right-click. The status information is meaningless to most users, therefore it should pop up on right click.

If the maintainer of network-manager-kde cannot fix this bug before the gutsy release, just drop me a note and I'll do that myself.

Cheers, Florian

Hmm...It seems that I'm able to change the status myself...it's now confirmed.

network-manager-kde/intrepid 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1 fixes this issue for me.