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Bug 674426 - a red icon is displayed briefly while the shell is starting up
a red icon is displayed briefly while the shell is starting up
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-04-19 19:33 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2012-04-29 16:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
NetworkMenu: hide on startup, to avoid showing network-error (1.06 KB, patch)
2012-04-24 21:12 UTC, Giovanni Campagna
rejected Details | Review
NetworkMenu: use network-offline while loading (909 bytes, patch)
2012-04-28 16:05 UTC, Giovanni Campagna
committed Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2012-04-19 19:33:08 UTC
When I login and the shell is starting up, a red icon appears in the system status area briefly. It is pretty odd and distracting. It would be more polished if we didn't :)
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2012-04-19 19:40:14 UTC
I'm unclear what red dot this is. It's probably some state of one of the icons? Maybe the network icon? Can you be specific?
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2012-04-19 19:56:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm unclear what red dot this is. It's probably some state of one of the icons?
> Maybe the network icon? Can you be specific?

The network icon definitively does that, and according to bug 668304 the battery icon as well. Dupe?
Comment 3 Giovanni Campagna 2012-04-24 21:12:28 UTC
Created attachment 212739 [details] [review]
NetworkMenu: hide on startup, to avoid showing network-error

network-error icon is red, and this can be distracting. Instead,
hide the icon until we're fully loaded and ready to show the actual
network icon.

This is for network, if that was the problem.
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2012-04-25 01:22:36 UTC
Compare to bug 668304 which has the same complaint about the power icon
Comment 5 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-04-25 14:14:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=212739) [details] [review]
> NetworkMenu: hide on startup, to avoid showing network-error
> 
> network-error icon is red, and this can be distracting. Instead,
> hide the icon until we're fully loaded and ready to show the actual
> network icon.
> 
> This is for network, if that was the problem.
If I understand correctly, this means the icon will pop up and push the surrounding indicators on startup? If the power icon does the same a moment later, this might look quite unpleasant. Don't you think it would be even better to start with a "disconnected" icon instead?
Comment 6 Giovanni Campagna 2012-04-28 16:05:26 UTC
Created attachment 213025 [details] [review]
NetworkMenu: use network-offline while loading

network-error is partially red and thus can be distracting at
login. Use network-offline instead.

Ok, so this is the other possibility. You pick the best one.
Comment 7 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-04-28 18:25:55 UTC
Review of attachment 213025 [details] [review]:

Yeah, this makes more sense.
Comment 8 Giovanni Campagna 2012-04-29 16:41:25 UTC
Attachment 213025 [details] pushed as 6122f65 - NetworkMenu: use network-offline while loading
Marking FIXED, use the other bug for the power icon.