nm-applet should change icon to indicate Airplane Mode

[Brendan Griffin]

When an ubuntu user enables "Airplane Mode" (System Settings > Network: Airplane Mode = On), the Network Status Indicator should change its appearance/icon to indicate that this special mode is enabled. Perhaps it should change to the icon of an airplane.

The user needs some form of communication (some form of indication) of the Airplane Mode status in the panel.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Thank you for submitting this bug. However, we are past the beta freeze for Ubuntu 12.04. Hence this will most likely be looking into for next cycle i.e Ubuntu 12.10.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

It's doubtful of the actual usefulness of this Airplane Mode toggle. What it really does is disable Wireless, but that still doesn't disable bluetooth (and possibly not mobile broadband either in some cases). Then comes how to display this, when there is already an indication in the form of the empty signal icon (that kind of pizza slice icon).

That's without counting how broken all the implementations of "airplane mode" are everywhere, considering you can and should be able to override it to still enable wireless... and now some flights do allow wireless on board, in flight.

Keeping as Wishlist/Triaged. This will need some careful thought and discussion with upstream; patches and design proposals are welcome, of course.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Opening a task against gnome-control-center too just for full-disclosure -- since this at least partially impacts code that is outside of nm-applet.