unity-api-bugs team mailing list archive

[Antti Kaijanmäki <antti.kaijanmaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2013-12-20:
> It's possible that "No service" may change to an icon in future. But it may not,
> and other SIM statuses likely will not, because they're too uncommon for any icon
> to be recognizable. So the same problem could still occur,
> for example, when you had no SIM in the phone at all.

The shape of an SIM card is universal and recognizable. 'X' is common
way to indicate "disabled" or "error". Padlock is a common way to
indicate either "Locked" or "Secured".  The purpose of a panel icon is
to notify about state. If we show an icon with a SIM card and "X" the
users notices that and then opens up the indicator to see what is the
reason for that icon. Thus the strings  "No SIM", "SIM Locked" and "SIM
Error" would be shown in the indicator menu where there is more space
for them.

"X" over the cellular strenght icon is IMO self explanatory for "No
Signal".

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Unity API
bugs, which is subscribed to Network Menu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1294256

Title:
  Text for SIM status in the panel takes too much space and does not
  scale for multi-SIM

Status in Network Menu:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  New

Bug description:
  When there is no signal, the indicator shows the text 'No signal'
  which takes up far too much space. It should use an icon, such an the
  network-offline icon from the system. This may be blocked by bug
  #1294251 as the network-offline icon is currently missing.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-network/+bug/1294256/+subscriptions