This is the Gnome applet I use for modem access. After adding a
user to the "dip" Unix group they can use this applet to dial the
modem, display transfers, and to hangup. Under properties I had to
change the connect and disconnect commands to be pon and poff rather
than pppon and pppoff (which don't exist -- perhaps this is a
"problem"). The newer Potato version of the applet had the defaults
correct.