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Bug 664293 - Cannot turn wireless off when not connected to a network
Cannot turn wireless off when not connected to a network
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 654033
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: network-indicator
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-11-17 18:46 UTC by Andreas Kloeckner
Modified: 2012-05-06 13:56 UTC
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Description Andreas Kloeckner 2011-11-17 18:46:28 UTC 
It's bizarre and it doesn't work right. (Examples: no "show password" checkbox for wlan login. If you hit Escape enough times, you go back to the regular NM UI. The odd, yellow login failure message overlaps the buttons in 'wordy' locales like German.)

Please back out this idiocy now and just let NM take over whenever there's a dialog box to show.

Oh, also: when I'm not currently on any wireless network, I can't turn wireless off. That's perfectly possible from within NM's network settings dialog.
Comment 1 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2011-11-17 18:52:01 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> It's bizarre and it doesn't work right. (Examples: no "show password" checkbox
> for wlan login.

Right-click on the password entry.

> If you hit Escape enough times, you go back to the regular NM
> UI.

bug #658484

> The odd, yellow login failure message overlaps the buttons in 'wordy'
> locales like German.)

bug #644667

> Please back out this idiocy now and just let NM take over whenever there's a
> dialog box to show.
> 
> Oh, also: when I'm not currently on any wireless network, I can't turn wireless
> off. That's perfectly possible from within NM's network settings dialog.

This seems like an unfiled bug, so let's keep this bug for that.
Comment 2 Andreas Kloeckner 2011-11-17 19:33:59 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > It's bizarre and it doesn't work right. (Examples: no "show password" checkbox
> > for wlan login.
> 
> Right-click on the password entry.

Right. I should've totally guessed that.

I know this bug report seems like I'm trolling you. But I still don't see the justification for reinventing a bunch of perfectly fine UI, and picking up, oh, a slew of UI bugs in the process--for what gain exactly?

This is a dangerous path--you'll have reinvented Gtk+ when you're done. (Don't believe me? Try copying and pasting text into the chat text entry.)
Comment 3 Andreas Kloeckner 2011-11-17 19:35:34 UTC 
What I'm trying to say is that while there's a justification for some UI (such as chat), the duplication of the NM UI seems like a bad idea. That's just a gut feeling though.
Comment 4 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-05-06 13:56:44 UTC 
Actually, an older report exists for this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 654033 ***