networkmanager passive notification wording needs to be changed

Do you have a screenshot of the notification you're talking about. I've never seen something like that yet. From NetworkManager I only get "connected" and "disconnected" notifications.

I can try to reproduce it, but since it only happens once in a while and that the notification is passive, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide a snapshot. I think it would be more useful/accurate to list all the notification in Network Manager.

Mirco,

Attached is the screenshot of the notification you requested.

Ah ok. Well that's really a NetworkManager-only issue. notify-osd just displays what it gets sent from applications via DBus/libnotify. So the solutions for NetworkManager is to:

- not use a notification at all for this
- but present the user with a dialog right away

or

- hint the user with just a list of available network-cells/ESSIDs (in a notification)
- mark or start a dialog allowing the user to take action (select the desired network-cell/ESSID)

But this issue really has to get some input and consideration from the design- and user-interaction team. This is one of those cases where NetworkManager abuses notifications for user-interaction (well we got rid of the action in the jaunty-cycle, but that was only half of the solution), where it should have used proper dialogs form the start.

I can confirm this, it is also happening in Karmic.

Also noticed this. It would be rather confusing if I didn't know NetworkManager from Jaunty.

It's also confusing that it directs you to the notification area icon, suggesting that you click the network manager icon, but shows what the icon looks like with full reception. When you haven't yet connected you'll be presented with a no signal version of the Wifi signal icon which looks different.

It's like, "Go and look for this icon and by the way it doesn't look like this icon", which is silly.

Jonathon

I can't understand why such a simple papercut can't be solved and is being pending since long time.

Secondly, the affected package is "Network Manager Applet" and not just "Network Manager".
Fixing this bug is so simple. Just open src/applet-device-wifi.c and edit the line number 1003

To make this work easy, I am even attaching a patch.

There was a spelling mistake in the patch. "applet" is spelt as "apllet"

@Manish Sinha:
The string change mentioned by the design team as mentioned wiki linked in the bug description was >
"Use the network menu above to connect to a wireless network"

Kindly update the patch and subscribe the sponsors.
Thanks for working on the papercuts btw ;)

Vish,

I have a *small* issue with "network menu above". A person can keep his menu below to make it look like Windows. Again it is just a minor case. Hope the design team has thought about it.

Hi Vish,
I have edited the patch an submitted it. Can you please check whether it works (even though such small changes should surely work)

It has been a long time since Tony was assigned and no fix has been done. So, i am fixing this one.

This patch has gone stale, and I cannot find the wording anywhere in packages network-manager and notify-osd. So, I am marking this one Incomplete and un-assigning me.

The bug is still present , http://launchpadlibrarian.net/56069067/screenshot3.png from recent dup Bug #643488

Fixed upstream:

194899ece55837f9b1165f868401453d075aba22 (master)
ff56f7aeb3900e30bd2340134cdc6d6fb27063aa (0.8.x)

Note that we cannot reference a specific location for the applet (ie, "network menu above") because the applet could be on any panel, including bottom and side panels. And (by design of the gnome-panel and notification area) there's no way for the applet to tell whcih panel it lives in, since notification placement is handled by the notification daemon, and that daemon is supposed to visually connect the notification bubble to the icon or not. So the wording must be agnostic.

Marking Fix Released, this fix from upstream has been included in Ubuntu Natty.

Cheers! What is the new wording?