"Airplane mode" doesn't notify and only disables wifi.

[nick rundy]

using ubuntu 11.10

when I use the Fn key shortcut (Fn+F5) to enable and/or disable "Airplane Mode" NotifyOSD never displays a notification of the event.

Shouldn't it notify about this setting change?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

There is no notification for this because you should be getting notified of a connection being disconnected in that case. Regardless, the whole concept of Airplane mode there (I'll assume it's in the control center), need to be removed altogether. It has nothing to do with any kind of "airplane mode", is confusing, and just plain doesn't do anything useful since it only disables wireless, not bluetooth.

Reassigning to gnome-control-center since there is no actual mention of airplane mode in network-manager at all; we should really remove this and clean this up so people don't get mislead by that text.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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