"1: No one, other than people actually looking for the difference, really cares about the stages or watches the stages during connection."
Yeah, but those people are not irrelevant. :) For me, for example, being stuck in stage 2 or stage 3 is the difference between asking the person responsible "is something wrong with the wi-fi today?" or "is the password you gave me correct?" Maybe a little poweruser-ish, I agree, but note I'm not asking to implement a new feature, just to not deliberately break an existing one. "2: No one would really know what the different stages are unless they actually know what they are looking for." To be fair, because there is not a thing like a "getting started" tutorial in Ubuntu, that argument applies to a lot of other things. One could say, for example, "what's the point in making the messaging menu icon different for new messages if the user doesn't know a priori that the messaging menu has two states in the first place"? "Stage1 icons is not supposed to be used or noticed[stage1 should take place within a fraction of secs] , if it is noticed there is a problem with the hardware. So it is a rather moot point redoing icons for those. It is well differentiable from the rest of the icons." If stage 1 icons represent an unexpected situation that is not supposed to happen, isn't this an argument *for* making them different and distinctive rather than *against*? "stage 2 is the stage where the hardware scans for netwroks , hence the waves move outwards and back inwards stage 3 is the resolution of the passwords for the wireless and the connection phase , hence retaining the old animation was done." Okay, 2 to 3 is more noticeable than I previously thought. I won't argue 2 to 3 further. "Now, regarding the vpn and stage 1 looking similar , it was intentional. Since stage 1 isnt used anyway , it was better to use that for the vpn animation." I'm not sure if icons representing "you are either having a problem with your hardware or connecting to vpn" are a good idea. :) -- Network manager icons incomplete (do not differentiate stages and vpn) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
