GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 709645
Add "Turn On" button to wifi selection dialog
Last modified: 2013-10-08 13:39:31 UTC
Created attachment 256738 [details] bug demonstration video Very often I have wifi turned off, and I want to turn it on and select a network to connect (I have autoconnect disabled). In GNOME 3.8, it was quite simple, I moved the ON-OFF toggle to ON state, waited a few seconds until the wifi networks appeared in the menu and then clicked on the preferred network. With GNOME 3.10, I have to do the following: 1. Open the menu, click on Turn On (if I actually notice that it is turned off, sometimes I click on Select Network and only after that realize that it is turned off, because I see no networks). 2. Open the menu again, click on Select Network. 3. Click on the network, click Connect. This is many more steps than it used to be. It also takes more time and more mouse movement. Please add "Turn On" button to the Select Network dialog. If it is there, it's not necessary to enter the menu several times, just once. I'd turn on the wifi from the dialog, pick the network and connect to it, all of that in a single place. Alternatively, you could remove Select Network item when wifi is turned off. It's useless anyway at that point. That way it would at least be clear that people have to turn on the wifi first, and select the network afterwards (and I wouldn't enter that dialog by mistake every now and then). But I think the previous solution is better. NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-12.git20130913.fc20.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.10.0.1-1.fc20.x86_64
Hey Kamil - totally agree. We already have a bug and mockups for this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 709128 ***