Bug 219899

Summary:	Disable Wireless is called "Enable Wireless"
Product:	[Unmaintained] Network Management	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	knetworkmanager	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	CLOSED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	codestruct, lamarque, qqzhenyi
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot Wireless management in different OS/DE Proposed UI Changes

Description Dotan Cohen 2009-12-24 00:43:53 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Disable Wireless is called "Enable Wireless". The lack of a checkmark is not clear, it does not look like there is a checkmark missing. This makes users disable their wireless when they are trying to connect.

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2009-12-24 00:44:35 UTC

Created attachment 39297 [details]
Screenshot

Comment 2 Matthew Woehlke 2009-12-24 01:19:13 UTC

I am confused, you have '[X] Enable wireless'. Why would you expect clicking on this to do anything /but/ disable wireless? That is how '[X] Enable blah' works. What is confusing?

If it is not checked, then clicking it thinking you need to do so to turn on wireless (because you don't see that there is an empty checkbox) is... exactly what you do, in fact, need to do.

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2009-12-24 12:00:48 UTC

> I am confused, you have '[X] Enable wireless'. Why would you
> expect clicking on this to do anything /but/ disable wireless?
> That is how '[X] Enable blah' works. What is confusing?

The ☑ mark is in the place for icons in KDE menus. In fact, just below the option in question is another option, "Manage Connections" which has an icon in that place. Therefore, the ☑ looks like an icon and not an enabled setting.

Furthermore, not everyone will look at the icon and determine that it is set. The text clearly says "Enable Wireless". The user wants to enable wireless. It looks like just what he wants.

Furthermore, this is inconsistent with the rest of KDE. On the desktop, for instance (bear with me, my desktop is not in English) the "Lock Widgets" text does not change from "☐ Lock Widgets" to "☑ Lock Widgets", rather it changes from "Lock Widgets" to "Enable Widgets".

Comment 4 Zhenyi Tan 2010-01-01 11:30:10 UTC

Maybe we could remove the checkbox, and change the text to "Turn On Wireless" and "Turn Off Wireless"?

Comment 5 Zhenyi Tan 2010-01-01 11:32:38 UTC

Created attachment 39487 [details]
Wireless management in different OS/DE

Comment 6 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-01 13:44:17 UTC

> Wireless management in different OS/DE

Thanks, Zhenyi, that is great.

I am of the opinion that OS-X has the best implementation. It has a disabled (grey) line which indicates that the wireless is enabled, and a line below it offering the option to disable wireless.

Comment 7 Zhenyi Tan 2010-01-01 16:28:42 UTC

Created attachment 39490 [details]
Proposed UI Changes

Sorry the latest version of networkmanager plasmoid doesn't compile on my machine ('cause I don't have the latest QT), so I couldn't submit a patch...

Comment 8 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-02 15:46:07 UTC

Perfect, Zhenyi!

Comment 9 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-03-17 04:16:42 UTC

The old monolithic knetworkmanager is unmantained, since Plasma NM does not have this problem I am closing this bug report.