Comment 6 for bug 1294256
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| Antti Kaijanmäki (kaijanmaki) wrote Re: Text for SIM status in the panel takes too much space and does not scale for multi-SIM | #6 |
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2013-12-20:
> It's possible that "No service" may change to an icon in future. But it may not,
> and other SIM statuses likely will not, because they're too uncommon for any icon
> to be recognizable. So the same problem could still occur,
> for example, when you had no SIM in the phone at all.
The shape of an SIM card is universal and recognizable. 'X' is common way to indicate "disabled" or "error". Padlock is a common way to indicate either "Locked" or "Secured". The purpose of a panel icon is to notify about state. If we show an icon with a SIM card and "X" the users notices that and then opens up the indicator to see what is the reason for that icon. Thus the strings "No SIM", "SIM Locked" and "SIM Error" would be shown in the indicator menu where there is more space for them.
"X" over the cellular strenght icon is IMO self explanatory for "No Signal".