Gnome 3.10: Network UI missing from new system status area

[John Morris]

On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 20:59 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> You should get an icon indicating failure just no success one. Which
> is even very unixy ;)

Well GNU is Not Unix and these days Fedora isn't even following that
star.  How does Apple do it?

Screen space is valuable so removing an icon that is 'always' there and
isn't typically displaying useful information is sensible enough.  But
as the bug commenters noted, some people DO move between wired
connections and such so an option to put it back really needs a bit of
thought.  And your idea that if anything goes wrong, loss of link,
failure to acquire a lease, etc. it should put up a no-net icon is very
good since these days no-network is the odd case, probably an error
state and almost always something the user wants to know about.  Better
still of course if it has a tooltip with useful information.

Any move to remove it with zero option should be a position that needs
defending first, not something one person imposes from on high.  If for
no other reason than it is going to surprise people so some awareness
building is probably a good idea.
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