New NM applet is less useful -- bug filed

[Rog132]

[SRU] Update plasma-nm, libnm-qt, and libmm-qt : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...m/+bug/1243822

SRU: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

[geoaraujo]

Slightly better after today's update. Still, the old one was so much better. Sigh...

[claydoh]

One vote for the new one. Maybe the only one.

Nope! despite some polish needed on the corners, I like this one better too

[GreyGeek]

Nope! despite some polish needed on the corners, I like this one better too

Ditto!

[dequire]

Count me in for liking the new one better as well. The old one was very unintuitive for moving around different views and getting to and from the settings for a particular connection.

[SteveRiley]

In it's present shape it works OK but I'm still missing a decent search function for WIFI.

In mine, the widget displays all the wi-fi networks that Network Manager discovers:



plasma-nm (the widget) itself doesn't talk to the network card, and only displays whatever Network Manager knows about. wpa_supplicant continuously scans and informs Network Manager of new wi-fi networks, which plasma-nm then shows.

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