If I understand you correctly, you're proposing more detailed status information in nm-applet? It may indeed be a useful to have the reason of network failure in the tooltip, if such is on-spot enough in most cases and not confusing. You already can view network connection status for some information from nm-applet's context menu.
If you'd like to propose enhancements, please explain them in more detail. I have no idea how windows behaves on this. What means 'new server detected'? If it's that the dhcp lease expired and it got a new one from a different server, it may indeed be good to show a notification (someone trying to spoof, for example). But what should the user do in that case? Should we warn the user that it may be spoofed? I have no idea how often this would occur legitimately. You see that just copying ideas from another operating system is not fruitful in itself, taking ideas and applying them to make the user more informed and more at ease that brings progress is. It may also be useful to have a difference in status for 'server denied request' and 'didn't get a response', I don't think we have that now (your mention of 'failed' and 'took too long'). Please remember that network-manager is relatively young and still progressing much each release. It may just need some time to be fully feature-loaded. If you'd like developers to pick up on your idea, please write them down in more detail: what exactly do you miss, and why, and what do you think it should be like. There's no guarantee that it'll be implemented right away, but that's the way to get attention. Thank your for your suggestions, we need input from people like you to make ubuntu better. -- nm-applet should change state https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206449 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
