GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 674426
a red icon is displayed briefly while the shell is starting up
Last modified: 2012-04-29 16:41:34 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 :)
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?
(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?
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.
Compare to bug 668304 which has the same complaint about the power icon
(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?
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.
Review of attachment 213025 [details] [review]: Yeah, this makes more sense.
Attachment 213025 [details] pushed as 6122f65 - NetworkMenu: use network-offline while loading Marking FIXED, use the other bug for the power icon.