Even if "there are lots of users who do not want networks connecting automatically" was true, that wouldn't matter, as long as they were still a small minority compared with the case I described of people wanting to connect to a wi-fi network at a cafe, airport, university, or other venue that they haven't visited before. That is the "reason NOT to confine networks you have never connected to the 'More networks' folder or an 'Unknown networks' folder". And that's why "having NEVER-USED, NEVER-WILL-USE networks taking up space in the drop-down is not a smart design choice" is assuming the question: it's conflating networks that you haven't used before with networks that you never will use, when they are not the same thing.
If "the user is forced to wade through unknown networks to single out the network/s they have previously connected to in the past", that is a bug. Please report it as a bug, with precise details <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager>, rather than making a design suggestion that might fix the bug but that has major side- effects. It is often the case that designers and engineers, especially those with experience in a particular component, can come up with better solutions to a bug than the reporter can. "This is most certainly not a bug, it is a feature request" It is neither; it is a request for a change to the design of an existing feature. It's okay to request a design change, and a bug tracker is a reasonable place to do it; Launchpad's "Opinion" status is a failed experiment (bug 772954). But a request for a design change is much less likely to be valid than a bug report, because often it lacks rationale or (as in this case) lacks perspective about the full range of use cases. Any time you put "should" in a bug summary, or even in the first paragraph, back away from the keyboard for a while and think: What is the problem I'm trying to solve? What would be the tradeoff of the solution I'm suggesting? Does the specification discuss this tradeoff? Can I think of five other solutions? ** Changed in: indicator-network (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425991 Title: Networks I have never connected to should be confined to an "Unknown Networks" folder To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-network/+bug/1425991/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
