Please make NetworkManager give more information via the GUI about what it's doing while connecting

[Jerone Young]

Today Network Manager only gives you two bubbles and a swirl to give you some indication of what it is doing when connecting to a network. This does not give the users any info to what is going on.

This is a request to have some notification to the user of what network manager is doing.

The case of connecting to a wireless network for example. Whould have a notification of "Associating to AP <blah>" , then "Getting Network Address", then it would show "Connected to AP <blah>"

For the case of a wired connection you would have a notification of "Connected to wired network", then "Getting Network Address", then it would show "Connected to wired network".

That is the basic idea.

[Jerone Young (jerone)]

To add this gives users a better idea of what is going on when connecting to a network. It also helps diagnose network connectivity issues with less advanced users.

[Jerone Young (jerone)]

Will discuss more at UDS for possibly adding feature or something similar for 10.04

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Changing status to Invalid for the Dell project, as this project is used for tracking non-public hardware enablement work.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

The network indicator shows when it's busy configuring the interface. If you want the indicator to provide more information then that's a request to submit upstream.

[Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez)]

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305939