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The summary pretty much tells the tale: users are forced to wade through
unknown networks to single out the network/s they have previously
connected to in the past.

I go to a location. Twenty some networks are available. Most of them
appear in the "More Networks" folder. Five networks appear outside the
"More Networks" folder. Despite the fact that I ONLY EVER connect maybe
two networks, other networks that I never ever connect to are always
displayed.

Why are networks that I have never connected to (and never will connect
to) ALWAYS displayed in the menu? Why aren't they confined to the "More
Networks" folder until connected to at least one time.

Previously, I proposed a solution: confine networks that have NEVER been
connected to in the "More Networks" folder. Once a connection has been
established, move it out of the "More Networks" folder.  I'm told most
users allow automatic wifi connections: so users only have to look ONE
TIME, the first time they connect to a foreign (never before seen)
network.

the current system presents two usability problems. If automatic
connection is turned on and more than one network has been connected to
in the past, the system does not know which network the user wants THIS
TIME. And yet the user has to wade through networks they have never
connected to and will never connect to to locate the networks they have
to connected to in the past (there has to be a better way to organize
this). Second, if the user does not allow automatic connections for
security/privacy/battery reasons, the user is forced to wade through
networks he/she has never connected to and will never connect every time
he/she wants to make a wifi connection.

Since my previous proposal was shot down, can ubuntu engineers please
come up with a solution to this usability problem (as Matthew Paul
Thomas has you are more capable of doing). Matthew Paul Thomas has
invalidated my "simple" solution that would inconvenience no one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-network/+bug/1425991

I'm told most users autoconnect. So they want to see the networks right
away, but this is nonsense. There are often so many networks, they HAVE
to look in "More Networks" anyways.

** Affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Users are forced to wade through unknown networks to single out the network/s they have previously connected to in the past
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1508468
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