Thanks for the suggestion, but I think this would be much too complex to
present usefully.

Partly this is because the proportion of people who would notice, and
understand, and remember to use the setting would be very small.

And partly because even if you did set it, there are many reasons that the 
connection type would be different from the one you had specified:
- As you've already mentioned, the connection type would need to persist even 
after the app that had caused it was in the background for a few seconds.
- Some apps use the DownloadManager to perform downloads in the background. 
Multiple apps might be using the download service at the same time.
- Ubuntu works on dual-SIM phones where one SIM does 4G and the other does not.
- And of course, available connection types depend on carrier coverage in your 
particular location.

I suggest instead investigating whether this kind of change could happen
automatically for low-bandwidth apps. For example, if all you have been
doing for the past minute is sending text messages, perhaps the phone
could drop down to 2G by itself.

** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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