Bug 315110

Summary:	UI Improvements / simplification
Product:	[Unmaintained] Network Management	Reporter:	Andrew Brouwers <abrouwers>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lamarque V. Souza <lamarque>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	afiestas
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Brouwers 2013-02-14 04:10:42 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Alex Fiestas 2013-02-26 21:54:24 UTC

Related:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255222&list_id=534922

Comment 2 Andrew Brouwers 2013-02-27 15:08:44 UTC

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 ***