I think that it must be possible to make the icon visible as an option. I use a cellular modem on my laptop and the easiest way to connect with it to the net is by clicking that icon... I guess that it's possible to connect from other places, but it won't be as easy.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:48 AM, John Morris <jmor...@beau.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 20:59 +0200, drago01 wrote: > > You should get an icon indicating failure just no success one. Which > > is even very unixy ;) > > Well GNU is Not Unix and these days Fedora isn't even following that > star. How does Apple do it? > > Screen space is valuable so removing an icon that is 'always' there and > isn't typically displaying useful information is sensible enough. But > as the bug commenters noted, some people DO move between wired > connections and such so an option to put it back really needs a bit of > thought. And your idea that if anything goes wrong, loss of link, > failure to acquire a lease, etc. it should put up a no-net icon is very > good since these days no-network is the odd case, probably an error > state and almost always something the user wants to know about. Better > still of course if it has a tooltip with useful information. > > Any move to remove it with zero option should be a position that needs > defending first, not something one person imposes from on high. If for > no other reason than it is going to surprise people so some awareness > building is probably a good idea. > > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test >
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