I notice that the instant START is tapped, the icon turns green well before it could connect successfully. And it remains green, even if I shutdown the network. So what is the icon telling us?

FEATURE REQUEST:

To get an idea of how the tunnel is working, I generally run something like: "tail -f /var/log/openvpn.log" (the logfile is specified by the "log" key in the config file). It would indeed be useful if the openvpn applet gave the user a way to request a detailed status, which could simply involve launching an xterm that runs the tail command on whatever log is mentioned in the config file.

Sometimes I just want to see what my IP address is. So I scroll through my bookmarks for a website that will echo that back to me. It gives me a relatively quick way of confirming whether the tunnel is working. It would be useful if such a webpage could be launched directly from the applet.