Mathieu,

I disagree. As I write this, I am sitting in a shared office building
with about 20 networks in sight. My company's network is (obviously) the
strongest signal, because I am in my office. There is no reason I should
have to sift through an alphabetical list of distant networks to find
the one I'm trying to connect to. It should be in the top 5.

I know the SSID and only need to do that once, of course, but that isn't
always the case. If I'm visiting a friend in an apartment building, it's
a similar situation. The same goes for most public access points.
Honestly, I can't think of very many situations where sorting
alphabetically would be more useful than sorting by signal strength. I
think it should be the default,  but at the very least there should be
an option.

I think it's absurd that this was closed as a Won't Fix. I don't imagine
it's difficult to implement, either, though that is not the point. This
is a feature which should exist and doesn't. It makes network-manager
seem amateur.

Gino

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