nm-no-connection icon should not be wireless / signal strength if system has no (activated) wireless device

[Nicolas DERIVE]

In latest jaunty, network-manager gnome displays an inappropriate icon when there are no network available. It's the one for 0% strength wireless signal with a red cross on it, but in the case of an ethernet only computer (without wireless), it's a non-sense to use it. Maybe should it be a different one in this specific but very frequent case ? No need of a very complex one, but the appropriate one.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

yes, this is an explicit design decision which was also discussed on mailing list; in the end its nothing that will be fixed for jaunty as similar argument was true if you didnt use wired before (and nowadays lots of users dont get their hands on wired anymore).

We will most likely redesign lots of things for karmic (9.10); at least we will ensure that if there is no wireless device, that you will get something more "wired"-like as disconnect icon.

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

This problem seems to have reoccurred in Karmic.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

problem is that we just use nm-no-connection for disconnected; human-icon-theme overrides that with the wireless + red cross icon. IMO it was never fixed.

Do we really want a solution? I don't think upstream would buy into such a change and carrying around another patch forever does not sound like the best way to move forward.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

setting to wont fix according to previous comment.