GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 765279
Bluetooh and Wifi in Power Savins are Confusing
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:24:27 UTC
Based on the location of the bluetooth and wireless off settings in the power settings section it implies those settings are for low power and not just for turning them on and off. Since they can be turned off both in other parts of the settings area as well as in the top bar.
I think this is a very unfortunate design. Yesterday I found that 5 minutes after I left my computer, the wi-fi was turned off so I couldn't keep connecting to it from my other machine. I found this option on the gnome control center, which says: Wi-Fi, Turn off Wi-Fi to save power. It was enabled. So my thought was, if I disable it, then wi-fi will never be turned off to save power. I was surprised when I clicked it and my wi-fi was disabled immediately. Just the opposite from what I wanted, instead of keeping it on, it turned it off. I don't see a reason to have this checkbox on the power section of the control panel. I can disable my wi-fi from the network section. What I would like is an option that lets me keep my wi-fi always on, even when the machine is idle.
Alternatively, we could set NMSettingWirelessPowersave in there. Thoughts?
This seems to have been handled in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/53 Related: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/681 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/657
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