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[Antti Kaijanmäki <antti.kaijanmaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: ubuntu-ux
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385423

Title:
  flight mode use of x and check mark is counterintuitive

Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  Confirmed
Status in “indicator-network” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every time I look at the flight mode status on my phone, it takes me
  an extra second to understand the current state.  Flight mode is "on",
  and shows a green check box, when the network is disabled; and flight
  mode is "off", showing a black and white X, when the network is
  enabled.  This mental negation costs cognitive effort to decipher,
  because it's using the same symbols as the individual services (wifi,
  gps, bluetooth...) with an opposite meaning.

  I'm not a designer, but my suggestion would be to use different
  symbols for on/off than are used elsewhere in the UI.  (The other
  possibility would be to change the name of the setting to give it an
  opposite sense; I don't suggest doing this because "Flight mode" is a
  well-known name for the functionality.)

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