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update-manager package

  1. Bug #430720
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 430720

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Vish (vish) wrote : Re: default GSM/GPRS icon is grey and indistinguishable (mistaken for disabled)

Paul , The icon used is > /usr/share/notify-osd/icons/gnome/scalable/status/notification-gsm-3g-full.svg

The grey *is* the signal strength, those icons were designed for notify-osd to display on a black background.

From your screenshot , the icon theme you are using isnt humanity-icon-theme. [Since humanity's panel icons are monochrome , notice the color battery and the apport crash icons]

It looks like you are using the gnome-icon-theme , or a theme which doesnt have those icons and hence fallsback to the gnome icon theme
Kindly switch icon them to humanity. [System > Appearance > Theme tab , Customize > Icons tab]

The other issue is the nm-applet currently does not support signal strengths for the gsm , it only uses one icon , and hence the problem.

Do report back if switching the icon theme to humanity fixes the problem.? [if you are on Karmic or Lucid]

[Just to remind again : The signal strengths has yet to be implemented in nm applet]