The Gnome bug report also includes some comments by Stefan Winter from Eduroam (the wifi network of many universities including mine), describing why this needs to be changed. Ubuntu developers please take a look at this comment by him: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702608#c17
In upstream Gnome the bug has been fixed with commit: https:/ /git.gnome. org/browse/ network- manager- applet/ commit/ ?id=c798c40c5dc e3bc6d9b615621c efe59660b5a504
The Gnome bug report also includes some comments by Stefan Winter from Eduroam (the wifi network of many universities including mine), describing why this needs to be changed. Ubuntu developers please take a look at this comment by him: https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 702608# c17