Greg, thanks for your suggestion. However, as Shahbaz points out, most of the time, Ubuntu will connect automatically to one of the networks you have connected to before. So most of the time, if you open the menu to connect to a Wi-Fi network, it is to connect to a network that you have *not* connected to before. It would be counterproductive, then, to show by default only networks that you *have* connected to before.
Where you have previously connected to more than one of the networks in range, the menu prioritizes showing these ones, ahead of showing networks that you have not connected to before. After that, it prioritizes the strongest other networks, minimizing the probability that the network you want isn't at the top level. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#wi-fi-menu> Shahbaz's proposal eliminates the problem of interleaving known with unknown networks. However, the reverse can also be a problem -- for example, you may not remember whether you used the Wi-Fi the last time you were at this particular cafe/airport/etc, so you may not remember whether the network is "known" or not. And having two lists of networks, separated by other functional items, would be rather inelegant. Part of adapting the phone Wi-Fi settings to the PC will, I hope, be introducing the ability to arrange previous networks in order of preference. Once that is done, I don't think there will be any point in also letting you confine/blacklist networks. ** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-network in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425991 Title: Networks I have never connected to should be confined to the "More Networks" folder Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When a user clicks the network manager indicator, a dropdown appears and lists wifi networks. This menu should NOT display networks that the user has never connected to. Networks the user has never connected to should only display in the "More networks" folder. At a mininum, the user should be given the ability to confine unwanted networks in the "More networks" folder. It is an unproductive design choice to force users to have to wade through networks they have never connected to (networks they will never connect to) in their menu. Numerous reasons exist why a user will not use the Auto-Connect setting for wireless networks. So it makes sense and is more efficient to have the menu only display the networks the user makes active use of and no more. When I click on the Network Manager Indicator and select "Edit Connections" and then look under the "Wifi" heading, only a couple networks appear. So why do 5 or more networks (networks I have never connected to, networks I never will connect to) perpetually show in the Network Indicator menu? They should not be displayed like they are. They should be confined to the "More networks" folder. Alternatively, there should be a way to manually confine/sandbox unwanted networks to this folder so they no longer display in the dropdown menu. In the interest of providing a visual example of what I am talking about, here is a picture of some networks I would like to hide/remove from my Network Indicator menu. http://a.pomf.se/fdqlnn.png To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-network/+bug/1425991/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
