Bug 497077

Summary: Improve useability by way to show more information without extra clicks
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: villeneuve
Component: Networks widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, nicolas.fella, villeneuve
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description villeneuve 2024-12-05 12:52:27 UTC 
Hi,
currently left clicking once on the applet brings up the list of connections and below the names of the connections it either shows the current upload/download rates or the last used date. To see the current IP-adress (or those of the default gateway etc.) the user has to click on the downarrow on the right of a connection.
So what IMO needs to be done is that the user has the option to always directly show the view which so far demands a click on the downarrow. Instead of implementing a strict on/off option for that it could also be made dependent on the current size of the applet window. So far when the user increases the size all he gains is a whole lot of even more empty space (unless he has dozens of connections of course). So ideally the applet would automatically show more connection details the bigger the user makes the window. It should also then not hide the "setup" button which is currently also hidden beneath the "downarrow-view".
Greets!
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2024-12-06 17:29:28 UTC 
How often do you look up your IP address for this to be relevant?
Comment 2 villeneuve 2024-12-07 13:12:27 UTC 
What a question, I don't keep statistics on this. I look up the informations which are currently hidden behind an extra click so often that after years of being annoyed about it I took the time to submit this suggestion to improve the KDE Plasma UX.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-12-11 22:44:57 UTC 
I believe it was a rhetorical question intended to steer you in the direction of recognizing that the IP address of the current connection is not information that's important enough to show on the list item.

Making the layout dynamic when you resize the widget is an interesting idea, but it's not really in scope, either. The widget is intended as a quick way to view and interact with networks in a transient way.

But thanks anyway for the idea!
Comment 4 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:25:50 UTC 
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796