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[Ivo Xavier <ivofernandes12@xxxxxxxxx>]

I will comment this, bug, with my experience, trying to help the
decision of what to do. I think this issue its all about customization.
By the which, for the moment, ubuntu touch is not famous for. Yet again,
every person has it owns requirements, so we end up on customization. In
my country the button to toggle the celular data is very used.

Off course adding this button has advantages and disadvantages, at least
for moment. Mine are:

*I use celular data, I have it most of the time turned on. In my country
(Portugal), my carrier (Meo) offers a tariff (Moche) with free traffic
for apps like whats app, facebook messenger, instagram, viber, iMessage,
Skype and a plus 500mb to surfer the web, view email etc. Its mostly
design for people under 26 years of age, we use it a lot. In my case,
and many others, we use the celular data button to stay "offline" to our
social media, to all apps. But I can't remember a situation when I used
the airplane mode (this mode for me is useless), because I still want my
phone be capable of receiving sms and calls from my parents, or even in
emergency situations. In this case, adding this button saves time,
because it can turn of celular data with on just click and save celular
data. Some people say that also saves power, but I don't see that as the
principal argument.

*Ubuntu phone experience. As someone mentioned in the mailing list, if
we add this button to the indicator network, we can put ourselves
exposed to risks. But yet again, I think is a matter of customization,
for some its make sense for others not. If other people couldn't change
the settings right up from the indicators, at least with the screen
locked with passcode, we wouldn't be talking about this specific issue.

So, every person has its own requirements. Adding this button will make
every person happy? No. Not adding this button will make everybody
happy? No. In my opinion, adding a functionality that let's users to add
or remove buttons from each indicator would be the best option. Off
course, canonical has to make a default option and decide to put it by
default or not, but users will also have the possibility to add or
remove. I remember Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 with android 4.2.2 has this
functionality, and I loved it, letting users to setting up what they
want to see (http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-
content/uploads/2013/02/Screenshot_2013-02-22-16-58-13.png).

But, for the moment, if the only option is to add or not to add, I will
go to: Add the button.

Hope I've helped with some ideas.

Good work people.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1373463

Title:
  [indicators] Impossible to disable cellular data from indicator

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I was wondering : Why it isn't possible to disable data from the
  network indicator ? Probably with a switch button that offer the
  choice between no data or data activated (with the last data activated
  state (2g only or 2G,3G,4G).

  Why this ? Because it's the first setting to change to save battery,
  and probably one of the most used (I asked around me, everyone agreed
  they would prefer that over Wi-Fi if only one was possible).

  I think it's stupid to go to the settings app for the most common
  action (and very frustrating). Of course, this also apply for the
  battery setting page (that already contain Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and
  brightness settings).

  I asked that on the phone ML, I've been invited to file a wishlist bug
  there to "help" designers with next iteration of network indicator. So
  here it is !

  [1] : mailing list discussion with already some support to this idea :
  https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg09910.html

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