The network-wireless-available icon is basically a blue Wifi antenna. When I first encountered it I thought was was connected to a Wifi network whereas in fact it was telling me I'm not but there are networks around. Having icons that only differ in color is bad for accessibility. Also it is not really clear what "blue" means, especially since I haven't seen any other completely blue Plasma tray icon. It should perhaps be a WiFi antenna with "low strength" and an asterisk overlay or so. Reproducible: Always
I agree; the blue-full-signal icon looks misleading with no clear meaning of the blue.
It should be blue that's in the icon guidelines. So, how about making the unavailable have a line across and making the available but not connected hollow?.
(In reply to Uri Herrera from comment #2) > It should be blue that's in the icon guidelines. So, how about making the > unavailable have a line across and making the available but not connected > hollow?. In several status icons I used orange dots and red blocks to indicate states where something is ready but unused. You can check breeze/status/toolbar to see what I mean. I don't know if that's consistent with try convention, but it's a possibility.
*** Bug 358088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So, what's the status of this? > It should be blue that's in the icon guidelines. Then your guidelines need to be fixed, it's not the first time there were two icons with an orthogonal meaning only that only differed in color which is bad for accessibility. > making the unavailable have a line across That might imply the Wifi device is broken. > available but not connected hollow How would you make something that consists of 1px lines hollow? I suggest we use the network-wireless-0-limited but instead of an exclamation mark have a an asterisk or a info badge instead.
...or a question mark.
Can we get this fixed, please?
Question mark makes sense to me, that's also found in other operating systems / DEs. Andreas, could you create a Wifi icon with a question mark emblem?
Git commit b6b26850fd2f888d53198300652dd7a19968114c by andreas kainz. Committed on 12/07/2016 at 17:36. Pushed by andreask into branch 'master'. fix network wireless available icon with an ? emblem M +- -- src/desktoptheme/breeze/icons/network.svgz http://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/b6b26850fd2f888d53198300652dd7a19968114c
done but I have to review all the network icons and add the style stuff but this bug is fixed. The additional review is 1. to clean up the icon and 2. there are also other icons with different color but without different style.