Bug 771259

Summary:	Network manager applet - fills up.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	sverrel
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	dcbw
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description sverrel 2012-01-03 00:21:29 UTC

Description of problem:

If you have an external wifi adapter, you very easily fill up the list of available networks in the dropdown list. This would be ok if the 'more' arrow did work. Turning the hardware button of any laptop disables all wifi, even the external adapter, so this isn't an option. In short. If you have enough networks around you, you will not be able to choose any because the list fills up. This could maybe be resolved with a higher screen resolution, but, if you use a laptop - and already have the max resolution set. It is impossible to use the applet.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

NetworkManager-gnome-0.9.2-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:

Plugin an external USB wifi adapter and make sure that there are more than a lot of available wifi networks around you. Preferably on a laptop with limited screen resolution.
  
Actual results:

The list of available networks should not fill up so that there is no room for the 'more' button to work.

Best choice would be that if a connection was set to 'off' it would not list any available networks. Now it does, and this is the real root of the problem. No one needs to list available networks when they have turned the adapter off by software.

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