With NM 1.6, there is a plan not to do automatical wifi scanning, but delegate this into clients (UI) itself. With this change, we will have to request a scan whenever the applet/editor/kcm is opened and keep requesting every ~15 seconds if it's still opened.
Git commit f48d66051909739318c64833be967deecfa62b65 by Jan Grulich. Committed on 09/01/2017 at 09:25. Pushed by grulich into branch 'master'. Auto-scan for wireless networks every 15 seconds NetworkManager plans to reduce periodic scanning in future and clients are now supposed to scan manually instead. Now the scan button is removed as it doesn't make sense anymore, because we now request scan every 15 seconds when either the applet or kcm is opened. This is implemented the same way in Gnome. Related: bug 374552 M +2 -0 applet/contents/ui/Header.qml M +12 -0 applet/contents/ui/main.qml M +11 -2 editor/connectioneditor.cpp M +1 -0 editor/connectioneditor.h M +13 -1 kcm/kcm.cpp M +1 -0 kcm/kcm.h M +2 -47 kded/networkmanagement.notifyrc M +5 -3 libs/handler.cpp https://commits.kde.org/plasma-nm/f48d66051909739318c64833be967deecfa62b65
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796