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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg, thanks for your suggestion. However, as Shahbaz points out, most
of the time, Ubuntu will connect automatically to one of the networks
you have connected to before. So most of the time, if you open the menu
to connect to a Wi-Fi network, it is to connect to a network that you
have *not* connected to before. It would be counterproductive, then, to
show by default only networks that you *have* connected to before.

Where you have previously connected to more than one of the networks in
range, the menu prioritizes showing these ones, ahead of showing
networks that you have not connected to before. After that, it
prioritizes the strongest other networks, minimizing the probability
that the network you want isn't at the top level.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#wi-fi-menu>

Shahbaz's proposal eliminates the problem of interleaving known with
unknown networks. However, the reverse can also be a problem -- for
example, you may not remember whether you used the Wi-Fi the last time
you were at this particular cafe/airport/etc, so you may not remember
whether the network is "known" or not. And having two lists of networks,
separated by other functional items, would be rather inelegant.

Part of adapting the phone Wi-Fi settings to the PC will, I hope, be
introducing the ability to arrange previous networks in order of
preference. Once that is done, I don't think there will be any point in
also letting you confine/blacklist networks.

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

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425991

Title:
  Networks I have never connected to should be confined to the "More
  Networks" folder

Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When a user clicks the network manager indicator, a dropdown appears
  and lists wifi networks. This menu should NOT display networks that
  the user has never connected to. Networks the user has never connected
  to should only display in the "More networks" folder. At a mininum,
  the user should be given the ability to confine unwanted networks in
  the "More networks" folder.

  It is an unproductive design choice to force users to have to wade
  through networks they have never connected to (networks they will
  never connect to) in their menu. Numerous reasons exist why a user
  will not use the Auto-Connect setting for wireless networks. So it
  makes sense and is more efficient to have the menu only display the
  networks the user makes active use of and no more.

  When I click on the Network Manager Indicator and select "Edit
  Connections" and then look under the "Wifi" heading, only a couple
  networks appear. So why do 5 or more networks (networks I have never
  connected to, networks I never will connect to) perpetually show in
  the Network Indicator menu? They should not be displayed like they
  are. They should be confined to the "More networks" folder.
  Alternatively, there should be a way to manually confine/sandbox
  unwanted networks to this folder so they no longer display in the
  dropdown menu.

  In the interest of providing a visual example of what I am talking about, here is a picture of some networks I would like to hide/remove from my Network Indicator menu.
  http://a.pomf.se/fdqlnn.png

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