right click behaviour not optimal for windows users

[Michael Vogt]

Binary package hint: network-manager

I talked with a computer literate friend today who installed ubuntu for the first time. He is a professional computer seller and works with windows daily. He had trouble finding the available wireless networks via network-manager. Apparently in windows those will be displayed on right-click, so he tried that and various options but did not try the left click.

It would be nice if this would be easier to discover for people switching because my test user was assuming this functionality is not working. Some additions to the conenction editor stuff maybe.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

11:11 < asac> mvo: so one idea i could think off is to make the connection editor more powerful, so you can also connect from
              there
11:12 < asac> meaning users that dont left click find the "Edit Connections" (maybe "Manage Connections") and then can
              configure and directly connect in the dialog

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Not upstream, as this behavior is just with Ubuntu with libindicator.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

This is a won't fix, it is according to the design not to allow right click menus anymore. See:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/184589/how-can-menu-bars-that-require-a-right-click-be-activated-like-ubuntu-versions