Bug 1265138
Summary: | [network] Usability: Need five mouse clicks to select the wireless network | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Petr Šplíchal <psplicha> |
Component: | gnome-shell | Assignee: | Florian Müllner <fmuellner> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | CC: | dcbw, mclasen, ohudlick, optak, rkhan, thaller |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Reopened |
Target Release: | --- | Flags: | thaller:
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Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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Last Closed: | 2018-09-03 14:48:59 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Bug Blocks: | 1295396 |
Description
Petr Šplíchal
2015-09-22 08:18:07 UTC
I assume you use Gnome3? In this case, you probably are using the NM integration in "control-center", and your usability issue should be reassigned. ... or are you actually using nm-applet? For example, do you have nm-applet running? $ ps aux | grep nm-applet Thanks Yeah, I think it is gnome-shell networking icon. In nm-applet, it is still two clicks one for opening menu and the second to activate a Wi-Fi connection. What is being described here is the network section of the gnome-shell status menu. The changes to the system status area are intended to follow a more consistent pattern for all the settings, and avoid an overly long menu. Therefore the ap list has been relegated to a dialog which allows for better scrolling, and more natural interaction with a potentially long list. I don't think we need to optimize the number of clicks for changing networks - most users will keep using the same ap(s) all the time. (In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #3) > > The changes to the system status area are intended to follow a > more consistent pattern for all the settings, and avoid an > overly long menu. Therefore the ap list has been relegated to a > dialog which allows for better scrolling, and more natural > interaction with a potentially long list. Thanks for the explanation, Matthias. I agree that having things consistent as much as possible makes sense. The solution proposed in comment #0, however, does not imply displaying a long list of all available wireless networks. It suggests only a few (let's say three) from the recent history would be displayed. In addition, the VPN section already implements very similar look with listing available VPN connections. So in this respect similar list of couple of wireless networks would be nicely consistent. Also, by default the network section is folded so this enhancement does not affect clean and concise look of the whole status menu. > I don't think we need to optimize the number of clicks for > changing networks - most users will keep using the same ap(s) > all the time. As this is my everyday morning exercise and I believe the use case with defaulting to non-authenticated network with subsequent need to manually select authenticated network is quite common I suggest to reconsider the decision, thus reopening. please don't do that. this is not a regression and not a test blocker. In my opinion this is a usability regression. Proposing for 7.3. This has been rejected upstream, and no strong reasoning for diverging downstream have been provided, closing. |