Since bugzilla is down i'll post a couple patches here that make gnome-shell work better with latest network manager. adapt to api changes: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gnome-shell.git;a=blob;f=0001-Account-for-nm_client_activate_connection-API-change.patch;h=b520ab9a2aaed78386910c456e012cd54d76aa2d;hb=27221984c469943ad480baf9a5f3d2b6f33f8a2c fix vpn bullet: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gnome-shell.git;a=blob;f=fix-vpn-indicator.patch;h=b7eee90d516ed6b3cf5aa0425cdd6c5d07188108;hb=7e9be7cd70bfb02253c75756762efb6b2f513300 --Ray