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Bug 621096 - 'Wired network connection' icon is not correct
'Wired network connection' icon is not correct
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: nm-applet
0.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-09 12:06 UTC by Angel Abad
Modified: 2010-06-15 05:55 UTC
See Also:
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Description Angel Abad 2010-06-09 12:06:57 UTC 
In Ubuntu Lucid X I reported:

The 'Wired network connection' icon shows the ethernet cable as being unplugged. This is again a poor design principle. When the ethernet is plugged in, then the icon should show the cable as being plugged in... obvious surely!?

Launchpad ref: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/586870

Thanks!
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2010-06-15 05:55:10 UTC 
This is an issue with the icon theme the distribution has chosen.  The icons it includes are likely not the stock NetworkManager icons.  Thus, it's up to your distribution to restyle the icons in their icon theme to correctly represent the metaphor required.

The stock NetworkManager 'wired network connection' icon is two computers, or when disconnected, two computers with a red X.  There is no ethernet cable in the stock NetworkManager icons.