Today, I booted into a fresh gnome-shell installation, and was amazed at how clean and simple the NM interface was. Just a simple icon, with a simple list of access points. Clicking on mine presented a small box to set a password, and I was up and running. When booting back into KDE, the applet seems too large and confusing. It would be great to have a simplified option, with a simple list of available WAP + their strength. Instead, the current plasmoid takes up a considerable amount of space. And at first connection, even though I enter my password correctly, it spams the notification-daemon with a "Failed to Connect" notice, even thought the association is going through successfully. It would be great to reconsider the GUI, and perhaps simplify this for the most common users. Reproducible: Always Experimented using KDE 4.10.0 + latest NM plasmoid.
Related: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255222&list_id=534922
Ah, sorry - I'll close this, as it seems identical. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the plasmoid gets much attention these days. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 255222 ***