Even if "there are lots of users who do not want networks connecting automatically" was true, that wouldn't matter, as long as they were still a small minority compared with the case I described of people wanting to connect to a wi-fi network at a cafe, airport, university, or other venue that they haven't visited before. That is the "reason NOT to confine networks you have never connected to the 'More networks' folder or an 'Unknown networks' folder". And that's why "having NEVER-USED, NEVER-WILL-USE networks taking up space in the drop-down is not a smart design choice" is assuming the question: it's conflating networks that you haven't used before with networks that you never will use, when they are not the same thing.
If "the user is forced to wade through unknown networks to single out the network/s they have previously connected to in the past", that is a bug. Please report it as a bug, with precise details <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager>, rather than making a design suggestion that might fix the bug but that has major side- effects. It is often the case that designers and engineers, especially those with experience in a particular component, can come up with better solutions to a bug than the reporter can. "This is most certainly not a bug, it is a feature request" It is neither; it is a request for a change to the design of an existing feature. It's okay to request a design change, and a bug tracker is a reasonable place to do it; Launchpad's "Opinion" status is a failed experiment (bug 772954). But a request for a design change is much less likely to be valid than a bug report, because often it lacks rationale or (as in this case) lacks perspective about the full range of use cases. Any time you put "should" in a bug summary, or even in the first paragraph, back away from the keyboard for a while and think: What is the problem I'm trying to solve? What would be the tradeoff of the solution I'm suggesting? Does the specification discuss this tradeoff? Can I think of five other solutions? ** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion => 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 an "Unknown 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 a folder called "Unknown Networks." At a mininum, the user should be given the ability to prevent networks from cluttering up the indicator menu. 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. Even if a user makes use of the Auto- Connect setting for wireless networks, only displaying known networks in the indicator dropdown allows a visual reference of available networks the user can connect to. If the user is in the vicinity of a free network or at a friend's house and has the password to a network he/she has never connected to before, this network would be unknown (because it has never been connected to before). So the user would browse the "Unknown Networks" folder to identify the SSID. Once connected to, from then on the network would directly display in the Network-Indicator dropdown list. 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 a folder called "Unknown Networks". 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
