Using a QR code with a WIFI:… string Android and possibly other handys can easily connect to a given network. It would be very helpful if one could show such a QR code from an existing connection.
That's already possible by right-clicking on a connection in the applet
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Yup. The fact that you didn't know this suggests that it's not discoverable enough, though. In general right-click-only user interfaces are bad for precisely this reason.
Generally we have an expanded view that shows extra actions, which would take care of this. But in the case of the networks applet, the expanded view is used to two custom views instead. Not sure where we could put the action.
Ok, indeed, I have never seen this before. I looked for it in the network details, especially the security page. I would like to be able to show the QR code even for a network that is not in range as that was my usecase today: take the connection data for a Wifi with me that I knew I had not connected to with the new phone. Showing it directly in the applet the same way as the clipboard tray has it would be great. The big "disconnect network" button could be replaced by something smaller with only an icon (I'm on 5.18.5, so this maybe already is resolved).
Perhaps I could add a third tab called "Actions" to the expanded view, which would be like the expanded view actions for other applets. The cleanest way to do this would be to implement support in the common component itself for using a tab view in the expanded view, and then port the Networks applet to use that functionality instead of implementing the tab view all on its own.
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796
Created attachment 183965 [details] Much more discoverable now
In Plasma 6.4 you no longer need to right click but QR code is displayed when expanding the network details, so I think this has been fixed.
Yep, thanks for following up on this!