Bug 496921

Hi - are you referring to the Networks tray icon, or to the pop-up widget when you click on the tray icon? Could you please add a screenshot attachment showing where the incorrect icon is appearing, and ideally the circumstances (e.g. is it possible another, limited connection is spontaneously activating when your main one is disconnected)?

Thanks!

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iconset Breeze wlan connected

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iconset Breeze wlan disconnected

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iconset LaCapitaine wlan connected

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iconset LaCapitaine wlan disconnected

Hi John, the problem becomes obvious when connecting to a mobile hotspot which status can change easily.
The incorrect icon is shown only in the tray, the pop up shows correct information.
Thank you

Thanks for providing those attachments - the question mark icon is the one for wireless networks "available" (the icon name is network-wireless-available), while "limited" would be with an exclamation point (ex. network-wireless-0-limited).

When the icon is showing with the question mark, are there wireless networks in-range that would be available to connect to?

If so, then this looks like the intended behavior (although the other icon set you have installed doesn't appear to handle network-wireless-available - that might need addressed with the icon theme creator).

Bulk transfer as requested in T17796

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when other wireless networks are available the icon has no question mark.
The situation is when wireless network is provided by a cellphone hotspot only but not available at the moment.
Other icon sets show similar behavior, not really showing that wireless is not available.
See additional screenshots for iconsets WhiteSur and Newaita. 
The information about availability status is shown correctly in the (Networks) popup.   
(Iconset LaCapitaine is not available today for maintenance/update)

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iconset whiteSur wlannotavailable

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iconset Newaita wlan not available

Hi - the notification popup you're showing in that attachment represents the "event" of disconnecting a specific network, though, which is using a "disconnected" icon to represent that. The icon in the system tray represents the general network connectivity status - which I assume is still that you're not currently connected, but that other networks (not necessarily ones you have configured to connect to, just any nearby Wi-Fi signal) are available?

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but I'm not seeing where an incorrect icon was shown using Breeze (as that's the only theme among those that KDE developers would have control over) in the system tray? Could you perhaps open up the Networks widget to check the listing of available networks, at a time when you believe the wrong icon is in use, to double-check?

Thanks!

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iconset Breeze no wlan connections

thanks John. 
OK, let's focus on breeze. The icon (with a red cross) shown in the disconnect event popup is exactly what makes sense.  Unlike the icon in the system tray status. At least with Breeze the question mark indicates that there might not be a connection.

Thanks for that attachment, I see where the confusion would be now - re-titling based on what appears to be the icon name involved. 

For reference: I believe this relates to the code at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/blob/v6.2.5/libs/connectionicon.cpp?ref_type=tags#L381 

I unfortunately am having trouble personally reproducing the behavior since I'm surrounded by too many Wi-Fi signals (and disabling Wi-Fi entirely triggers a different icon), but hopefully someone can use that situation to reproduce the behavior.

Thanks!

thanks for pointing to the code. Very interesting. But as a fortran guy I prefer not to touch it ;-)

As far as I can tell, this is all intentional and looks as designed with Breeze. Issues with 3rd-party icon themes should be reported to them.