Mathieu asked me to look at this bug report. I think it's
straightforward that the purpose of the menu title is primarily to let
you know whether you are connected to the Internet, and secondarily to
tell you what kind of connection you're using. (I'd written similarly in
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#Title>: "The title of the menu
should show the most unusual method by which the computer is currently
connected to the Internet, or that it is not connected at all.")
Those goals shouldn't be mutually exclusive. The menu title tells you
whether you are connected or not if you are using wi-fi, so it's totally
reasonable for it to tell you whether you are connected or not with a
wired connection too. It shouldn't be difficult to produce a "wired
disconnected" icon, though it might be necessary to fix bug 532522 at
the same time. (If no-one is available to provide icon artwork, let me
know and I'll submit a request to Canonical's visual designers.)
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577297
Title:
NM indicator chooses an icon according to one interface even if the
Internet is reached via another interface
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: network-manager
I'm using network-manager with DSL. My DSL connection is rather
unreliable, so it disconnects or refuses to connect relatively often.
A major feature of network-manager for me is that it attempts to
reconnect automatically, another one is that it displays me whether
the connection works right now thanks to its icon.
that second feature stopped working in 10.04. Now the icon of network-
manager is the same whether i'm in fact online or not. i do get a
notification that the connection was lost, so network-manager knows
that i'm now offline, but the icon stays the same.
i don't know if it's a problem of the icon set (Humanity) or of
network-manager.
i do have besides the DSL connection also a second network card for
the local area connection. that second connection is always working.
maybe the network-manager icon is showing me the status of that second
connection, but if that is the case, it really makes no sense, it
should show me the status of the connection bridging me to internet.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager 0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat May 8 07:50:35 2010
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
IpRoute:
213.250.19.90 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 86.61.103.210
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.1 metric 1
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000
default via 213.250.19.90 dev ppp0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
SourcePackage: network-manager
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