network-manager gui - should place available wireless networks at very bottom of menu

[Josh North]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Release: 8.10, 8.04, and previous
Version: network-manager 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1

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Expected:
The network-manager-applet should place the available wireless networks list at the bottom of the single-click menu to make access to the lower options (VPN Connections, Connect to other wireless network, Create new wireless network) easier. Another possible solution would be to place the available wireless networks in a submenu similar to the VPN connections menu so that the main menu stays short and concise.

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Actual:
Living/working in downtown Atlanta and knowing others who live on college dorms, etc, we can see up to 20-30 wireless access points in that list, and it can get very annoying to have to scroll all the way down each time we want to connect to a work vpn or create an ad-hoc network for a conference meeting.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Hi,

this is a UI decision I would like to defer to NetworkManager project itself. The release after 0.7 will probably see a major polish of the nm applet and maybe your suggestions can be helpful. If you file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org about this, please post the bug id here too. Thanks.

[Josh North (josh-north)]

Sounds great - works well as is, just thought it would improve useability. Created bug 555312 at bigzilla.gnome.org - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555312

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I think this has improved in the most recent version, hasn't it? I believe only the first X connections are shown, and further wifi networks are in a submenu. Does that address you concerns?

[Josh North (josh-north)]

Absolutely, the latest interface addresses these concerns as well as improving other aspects of useability.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

great, thank you for reporting back.