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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Scott,

I actually find the network indication ok at the moment. When the bars
are ascending its connecting, when there is no animation its connected,
if its failed to connect the password dialog pops up. If you click on
the icon it tells you what you are connected to and offers a disconnect
below the ones you are connected to. If you hover the mouse over the
icon a tooltip says what network you are connected to and if its
wireless it tells you the signal strength. 

All that being said it could be a little clearer at times and the
nm-applet needs a bit of user interface love.

-fagan

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 15:43 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 for a friend who had never used Ubuntu
> before.  After the installation we were trying to remember the wifi
> password.
> 
> We took an initial guess at the password, and were left confused about
> whether or not it worked.  There was no feedback other than some
> animation in the indicator, however we couldn't figure out if that meant
> "connected" or "connecting" or was just the normal status.  There's no
> text on the icon to explain what it's doing, and clicking the indicator
> doesn't help either.
> 
> I couldn't figure out if it was connecting, connected, or giving up
> after a bad password.
> 
> We ended up having to open Firefox and see if it loads a page in order
> to tell that the wifi password was wrong.  This process repeated about 5
> times until we finally remembered the right password (and then saw a
> network manager notification).
> 
> 
> In short, the process of connecting to the internet for the very first
> time did not work very well, as the indicator in its current form is
> simply failing to indicate what we needed to know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
> 
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