Okay, how about this. If you stop any connection from software (e.g. by choosing “Disconnect” in the menu), no notification bubble should appear.
If a connection ends in any other way, a notification bubble should appear with the icon of the connection, “Disconnected” as primary text, and the name of the connection as secondary text. If there are no other active connections, the primary text should be “Disconnected — offline”. That still isn't supremely elegant, but at least the notification wouldn't be appearing every time you switch networks or go into flight mode. ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345824 Title: "Disconnected - you are now offline" case needs better copy/solution Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: There should be a more clever solution for differentiating between "device disconnected" and "you are offline" cases. At the moment seeing "you are now offline" message every time I get disconnected is very annoying if there's only one connection source. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/345824/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp