Update manager did not change icon-theme to default theme[Humanity] on dist-upgrade

[Paul Sladen]

The default icon used by nm-applet to show a confirmed GSM connection is grey and does not have feature any "positive" indications that the connection was *successfully* established.

The main colour of the icon is fairly close the the taskbar default background grey and so appears that it might be disabled.

Ideally the icon should have some indication of success, such as a 'tick' or area of green colour (even if the signal strength cannot be read by the current version of NM).

[Vish (vish)]

That is actually an icon from the notify-osd icon theme.

1 > What theme are you using?
2 > Does the problem arise with the humanity-icon-theme ? [I recall adding an icon in humanity to fix this] but i dont have the gsm/gprs connection to check if it fixed the problem

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Vish: whatever the standard, default theme is (probably 'humanity-icon-theme'). The "problem" is that when there's a connection, but no known signal strength, a signal strength of zero is assumed... yet the fact that there /is/ a connection should indicate otherwise.

One solution should be to increase the number of bars by one (and that first one is always "active"), so that any time that there /is/ a connection at least one of the bars will be displaying.

[Vish (vish)]

Paul , The icon used is > /usr/share/notify-osd/icons/gnome/scalable/status/notification-gsm-3g-full.svg

The grey *is* the signal strength, those icons were designed for notify-osd to display on a black background.

From your screenshot , the icon theme you are using isnt humanity-icon-theme. [Since humanity's panel icons are monochrome , notice the color battery and the apport crash icons]

It looks like you are using the gnome-icon-theme , or a theme which doesnt have those icons and hence fallsback to the gnome icon theme
Kindly switch icon them to humanity. [System > Appearance > Theme tab , Customize > Icons tab]

The other issue is the nm-applet currently does not support signal strengths for the gsm , it only uses one icon , and hence the problem.

Do report back if switching the icon theme to humanity fixes the problem.? [if you are on Karmic or Lucid]

[Just to remind again : The signal strengths has yet to be implemented in nm applet]

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Vish: at no point have I changed the theme. To have done so would default the point of "dogfooding" Ubuntu in the first place; the theme that is getting used, is getting used because it was selected by some default settings, at some point. If I explicitly change the theme in this case, that is likely to end up masking other issues. (Eg. /why/ is this theme in use, are there dist-upgrade issues?).

One-person workarounds are not a useful solution; they do not solve the generic default and they do not fix the root cause more widely.

[Vish (vish)]

Paul , though i understand your desire to dip deeper about this issue.
But the issue of the icon theme not being updated is *not* a bug in network manager.
That would be a bug in either g-c-c or update manager.

But first , Kindly switch icon theme to humanity. [System > Appearance > Theme tab , Customize > Icons tab]

If that solves the problem , then we can change the package to Update manager or g-c-c for not being able to handle the icon theme update, where this issue can be addressed properly.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Theme forced to Human; Icons forced to Humanity and now there are tiny unreadable 1px-wide "stick insect" icons. Is this what is intended?

[Vish (vish)]

I believe you are referring to icons resembling >
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/Svb1vyIfQoI/AAAAAAAAEUE/JR1L1MJVuQ0/s1600-h/screenshot_008.png

I'm changing the bug to update manager , for not being able to handle the dist-upgrade.
[However, i believe it is a policy to not change the user settings during such updates.]

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Now that I've explicitly overridden the theme/icon set in this case, guidance would be appreciated for removing the explicit selection and leaving it back with the non-explicit default.

[Vish (vish)]

I not sure what you mean by , "guidance would be appreciated for removing the explicit selection and leaving it back with the non-explicit default."

Human theme and the humanity-icon-theme *are* the default themes. This default to humanity-icon-theme was changed in Karmic. and is the default in Lucid as well.

If you are asking how to revert back to the old icon theme?
I'm not sure what you were using , since the screenshot only showed the panel which suggests gnome icons, Were the folders grey?
you could try the gnome icon theme or any other icon theme in the appearance prefs , keep trying until you notice the theme/icon set you were using.

[arm-c (arickmcniel)]

Icon too large in 11.10 Beta 2 (upper right corner). Legacy indicator.