Flight mode should allow turning on wifi

[Mathieu Marquer]

Wifi is getting more and more usual in flight, especially in the USA for now. On my Android phone, enabling flight mode turns off wifi/bluetooth/3g etc, but allows you to re-enable wifi while you're still in flight mode. With network-manager, only wired connexions can be enabled.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8.3+git.20110114t131931.fd589a7-0ubuntu5 [modified: usr/bin/nm-applet usr/bin/nm-connection-editor]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
Date: Wed Feb 2 22:09:36 2011
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110131)
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.65 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Confirmed, some airlines allow using wifi on planes, so we may need to rework this design some more.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Reverting Flight Mode menu item since it's confusing to users, and does end up adding complexity in handling cases where you would want wifi but everything else disabled (some airlines now offer wifi).

There appears to just be no simple way to elegantly tackle this issue right now, so I think it's better to just revert.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager-applet - 0.8.3+git.20110203t003354.9bf0b98-0ubuntu1

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network-manager-applet (0.8.3+git.20110203t003354.9bf0b98-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * upstream snapshot 2011-02-03 00:33:54 (GMT)
    + 9bf0b98073bee4905bb00b4658d8fd78c84a831f
  * debian/control: Drop the mobile-broadband-provider-info dependency to a
    Recommends. (LP: #582404)
  * debian/patches/nm-applet-use-indicator.patch: revert Flight Mode, it's
    confusing users and not accurate; plus doesn't allow re-enabling just wifi
    from flight mode (when flights allow wifi, for instance)
    (LP: #704295, #712122)
  * debian/patches/nm-applet-use-indicator.patch: disconnect a VPN connection
    when it's activated and its GtkCheckMenuItem is clicked. (LP: #701004)
  * debian/patches/applet-wifi-menu-before-vpn.patch: move Connect to Hidden,
    Create New wireless items below the VPN submenu.
  * debian/control: bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1.
  * debian/control: move Homepage to its own field.
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:53:22 -0500