Comment 1 for bug 341684

i think you want to do two things here:

 1. add device class information to disconnect notifications
 2. notify about special events like "wireless disabled/enabled" or "wireless hardware disabled/enabled"

for 1.:

The notification you see in applet.c that displays a generic icon for disconnect is done when the client state changes to disconnect.

That state refers to the "overall" connectivity state which is why there is no info which type of device you disconnected.

One idea is to track device changes and use the most recently disconnected device to guess the type of notification we want to display.

However, this would make us depend on the order of the notification events, which are on its own not connected - and no guarantees are given about the order (e.g. one time we could get a "wireless device disconnected" event followed by "nm client disconnected", next time it could be in different order).

stacking notifications and modifying them after they appeared might be a solution for that.

... to be continued