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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

indicator-network does not have a "More networks" submenu; that string
does not appear in the code at all. So you are almost certainly not
running indicator-network. This is a design flaw in network-manager-
applet, that will most likely be addressed in Ubuntu by replacing it
with indicator-network.

** Package changed: indicator-network (Ubuntu) => network-manager-applet
(Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1508468

Title:
  Users are forced to wade through unknown networks to single out the
  network/s they have previously connected to in the past

Status in network-manager-applet package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

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