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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

indicator-network will likely become, if it is not already, the most
complex indicator code-wise. If it can integrate tethering, VPNs,
Bluetooth connections, and anything else nm-applet handles that I don't
know about yet, and still launch near-instantly and reliably, then my
worry about it providing the SIM PIN UI may be unfounded.

Consider this scenario, though: A couple of years from now, a bug is
discovered where a broadcast Wi-Fi network with a particular name
crashes indicator-network. (Maybe it's extremely long, maybe it contains
non-UTF8 bytes, whatever.) Even if an update was issued to fix the bug,
whenever someone with a SIM PIN on their phone was in range of that
network, they wouldn't even be able to unlock their phones to turn off
Wi-Fi, let alone install the update! Hopefully it wouldn't be a city-
wide network...

Anyway, just moving the string wouldn't alter the fact of code specific
to the SIM PIN dialog being present in unity8. That's why I asked the
followup questions: it seems that this is the case for every dialog that
happens not to cover the screen. Is that right?

For example, the "Show password" checkbox in the full-screen "Other
network" screen in System Settings can be implemented entirely in
ubuntu-system-settings -- but implementing exactly the same checkbox in
the dialog for authenticating to a broadcast network (as invoked from
either indicator-network or System Settings) involves completely
different code in unity8.

Similarly, the graph of battery charge is currently implemented entirely
inside ubuntu-system-settings -- but if we wanted to replicate that
graph, or anything like it, inside the "Battery Low" warning dialog,
we'd need completely different code in unity8.

Is that right? If so, maybe we should fix that. Copying or moving some
UI into a dialog should not involve rewriting part of it inside the OS
shell code. Especially since whether something is a sheet or a dialog
will depend on its screen size. Sometimes the same UI (like the Print
UI, for example) will be a sheet on a phone, but a dialog on a tablet.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1267135

Title:
  network-indicator should provide the "Please enter SIM PIN" text

Status in Network Menu:
  Incomplete
Status in The Unity 8 shell:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-system-settings” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  We are showing the "Please enter SIM PIN" text ourselves but according
  to Saviq it should come from the indicator and not be in our code.

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