CR: indicator bar on top of the phone should show hotspot connections

[Matthias Apitz]

From my company if have an iPhone for doing business calls. Sometimes, in
areas where is no coverage of 3G but LTE works, I do use this as hotspot
too to connect my netbook to Internet. When hotspot is used by a station
(the netbook) the iPhone shows a blue line below the normal symbols of
battery, provider, LTE, ... saying:

Personal Hotspot: 1 Connection

I'd like to see this in our beloved Ubuntu phone as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Matthias Apitz (gubu)]

see the second line in the blue bar on top where it says in German 'Personal Hotspot: 1 connection'

[Dominik (dominalien)]

The thing with the blue bar is that it takes up screen space - ios compensates for this by squishing all the icons closer together.

While I am all for having an indicator of how many clients are connected (possibly with more details about them in the hotspot options), wouldn't a number on the icon that appears on the top bar right now when the hotspot is active suffice?

[Dominik (dominalien)]

Something like this, perhaps.

[Matthias Apitz (gubu)]

Dominik, this (icon with the number of connected clients and detailed information in the hotspot config screen) would be the best solution, IMHO;