Greg, thanks for your suggestion. However, as Shahbaz points out, most
of the time, Ubuntu will connect automatically to one of the networks
you have connected to before. So most of the time, if you open the menu
to connect to a Wi-Fi network, it is to connect to a network that you
have *not* connected to before. It would be counterproductive, then, to
show by default only networks that you *have* connected to before.

Where you have previously connected to more than one of the networks in
range, the menu prioritizes showing these ones, ahead of showing
networks that you have not connected to before. After that, it
prioritizes the strongest other networks, minimizing the probability
that the network you want isn't at the top level.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#wi-fi-menu>

Shahbaz's proposal eliminates the problem of interleaving known with
unknown networks. However, the reverse can also be a problem -- for
example, you may not remember whether you used the Wi-Fi the last time
you were at this particular cafe/airport/etc, so you may not remember
whether the network is "known" or not. And having two lists of networks,
separated by other functional items, would be rather inelegant.

Part of adapting the phone Wi-Fi settings to the PC will, I hope, be
introducing the ability to arrange previous networks in order of
preference. Once that is done, I don't think there will be any point in
also letting you confine/blacklist networks.

** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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