network monitor's icon have too much unused space

[Paul Sladen]

Network monitor provides a quick indication of the current network status and allows access to further settings. At the right hand of the main icon is now a horizontal signal bar twice the length of the main icon:

  http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/g-a-network-monitor.png

This takes up an aweful lot of room and is much more space wasting than the pervious 4-step vertical indication.

Ideally this should be make vertical again as the actualy bar provides no clickable-target or other auxillary facility.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

nothing to do with gnome-applets, that's a theme issue and already known

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The icon theme is not shipped with the gtk theme, reassigning to the right package

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

You can talk about that problem on the ubuntu art mailing list.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Will be fixed with next upload.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

 ubuntu-artwork (15) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * art/icons/*:
     - updated.
   * Bugs fixed:
     - Malone: #39180. (missing icon cache, fixed by rebuild with fixed
       debhelper)
     - Malone: #34841: "strength meter inverted".
     - Malone: #34521: "network-monitor wifi-signal bar is far too long"
   * art/wallpaper/warty-*.png, art/splash/ubuntu-slick.png:
     - tidied up for beta.

[Michael Favia (michaelfavia)]

After todays update the signal bar is now vertical but is still really spaced out to the right. Perhaps it could be moved in a bit? Good art though even if i think the bar is a little too wide now too at 1024x768. -mf

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Reopening. You're right.

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

This issue is still present on Flight 7. Also, the wireless gauge could be much slimmer, similar to the one in Breezy.

[narcus (aasjord)]

I don't think the wireless gauge necessarily has to slimmer, but getting rid of all the blank space on both sides of it would certainly be nice.

[John Simpkins (onerobot)]

There are some fixed icons here:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=180680

All of the whitespace in the network bar has been cropped, and the tangerine network icon is used in place of the dapper default.

[Adriaan Peeters (apeeters)]

Today the network connection icons changed (they are a lot better!) but the wireless status icon still use way to much space.

[Scott Templer (satempler)]

Still have to much space gee hope this gets fixed. its not realy that hard right.

[narcus (aasjord)]

Sorry, I don't think the last change was to the better. It wasn't the two-screens in the icon that was the problem, the previous looked better. And they're jumping up and down now, which I find a bit disturbing.

Why not use the icon from John Simpkins? It think that one's fine.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed in ubuntu-artwork 24.

[André Rüdiger (andreruediger-deactivatedaccount)]

The icons are too abstract in my opinion. It's just a progress bar and could represent anything. There's no visual indication that it represents the signal strength of the wireless connection. There should be an antenna or something similar included.

The original nm-signal-XX icons could besides fill the gap for gnome-netstatus-XX-XX in the tango theme. Am I wrong? May I reopen this?