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[Greg Williams <1425991@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@ James Anslow, no because it's not signal strength that defines the
significance of the network to the user. The user is making connection
decisions based on the identity of the network. Even in a context where
a user is trying to select between several free networks, signal
strength may or may not be an important consideration. Personally, I
value my appraisal of the trust worthiness of the network over signal
strength.

And signal strength is a non-factor in a trusted context, for example
your home. The neighbors may be blasting their WAP at max strength and
you have reduced your WAP's strength because you are in a small
apartment or something. So your network would appear at the bottom of
the list, being crowded out by the stronger signals. Yet you have never
connected to your neighbors' networks and you likely never will. So why
should these networks display perpetually in a "regular-use" area of
your menu?

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Title:
  Networks I have never connected to should be confined to an "Unknown
  Networks" folder

Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu:
  New

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 a folder called "Unknown Networks." At a
  mininum, the user should be given the ability to prevent networks from
  cluttering up the indicator menu.

  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. Even if a user makes use of the Auto-
  Connect setting for wireless networks, only displaying known networks
  in the indicator dropdown allows a visual reference of available
  networks the user can connect to. If the user is in the vicinity of a
  free network or at a friend's house and has the password to a network
  he/she has never connected to before, this network would be unknown
  (because it has never been connected to before). So the user would
  browse the "Unknown Networks" folder to identify the SSID. Once
  connected to, from then on the network would directly display in the
  Network-Indicator dropdown list. 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 a folder called "Unknown Networks".

  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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