Comment 28 for bug 1373463

I will comment this, bug, with my experience, trying to help the decision of what to do. I think this issue its all about customization. By the which, for the moment, ubuntu touch is not famous for. Yet again, every person has it owns requirements, so we end up on customization. In my country the button to toggle the celular data is very used.

Off course adding this button has advantages and disadvantages, at least for moment. Mine are:

*I use celular data, I have it most of the time turned on. In my country (Portugal), my carrier (Meo) offers a tariff (Moche) with free traffic for apps like whats app, facebook messenger, instagram, viber, iMessage, Skype and a plus 500mb to surfer the web, view email etc. Its mostly design for people under 26 years of age, we use it a lot. In my case, and many others, we use the celular data button to stay "offline" to our social media, to all apps. But I can't remember a situation when I used the airplane mode (this mode for me is useless), because I still want my phone be capable of receiving sms and calls from my parents, or even in emergency situations. In this case, adding this button saves time, because it can turn of celular data with on just click and save celular data. Some people say that also saves power, but I don't see that as the principal argument.

*Ubuntu phone experience. As someone mentioned in the mailing list, if we add this button to the indicator network, we can put ourselves exposed to risks. But yet again, I think is a matter of customization, for some its make sense for others not. If other people couldn't change the settings right up from the indicators, at least with the screen locked with passcode, we wouldn't be talking about this specific issue.

So, every person has its own requirements. Adding this button will make every person happy? No. Not adding this button will make everybody happy? No. In my opinion, adding a functionality that let's users to add or remove buttons from each indicator would be the best option. Off course, canonical has to make a default option and decide to put it by default or not, but users will also have the possibility to add or remove. I remember Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 with android 4.2.2 has this functionality, and I loved it, letting users to setting up what they want to see (http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Screenshot_2013-02-22-16-58-13.png).

But, for the moment, if the only option is to add or not to add, I will go to: Add the button.

Hope I've helped with some ideas.

Good work people.