feature/ MacOS show vpn name and tailscale exit node if active

[Theoreticallyhugo]

on macos and linux the vpn option now is able to show the name of the vpn if in verbose mode or VPN if verbose is off.
if a tailscale exit-node is used, it shows its name in verbose, or Tailscale if verbose is off.

scutil did some funky stuff for me, so i had to filter out the asterisks 😅

new options for the network-vpn plugin
@dracula-network-vpn-label
this option is what is displayed when verbose is false.
if verbose is true, this label is the prefix to the name of the vpn/ exitnode.
@dracula-network-vpn-verbose
whether to display the vpn/ exitnode name

[ethancedwards8]

I'm hesitant to rely on jq as a dependency.

[Theoreticallyhugo]

understandable. im planning to rework this entirely if i end up making it "production ready" and i will keep that in mind then 👍

[ethancedwards8]

I was poking around with this and I think you could just replace this with grep since you're not actually interpreting the json and just checking if it exists. I tested it with tailscale (I am now using it) and doesn't even report ExitNodeStatus unless you are connected to an exit node @Theoreticallyhugo

[Theoreticallyhugo]

cool, thanks!

i'm currently in my exam period, but im planning on revisiting this soon after :D

[Theoreticallyhugo]

so far this is tested on macos only, and i'll need to look into vpns some more before this is ready to merge

also some vpns wont be detected by our scripts because they were not configured in the macs network settings. private internet access(pia) seems to be one of those candidates. maybe ill find some kind of workaround...

scutil --nwi should give us a different network device when a vpn is running, except that still doesnt apply to pia at least.
this does however work for openconnect, so we might wanna look into this.

[ethancedwards8]

I'll test on Linux tonight. I'll also test on MacOS. For now, tailscale support is fine. We can support others as they come.