This is most certainly not a bug, it is a feature request.
Splitting up the dropdown into something like "Visited/Remembered
Networks" and "Other/Unknown Networks", which default to a collapsed
list would make sense and could possible be a useful feature. Either
way, that would need to be handled upstream by gnome.
** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425991
Title:
Networks I have never connected to should be confined to an "Unknown
Networks" folder
Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
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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