Provide a way to do on-demand wifi scanning from applet

Bug #993106 reported by Jānis Kangarooo
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

If im connected to one router and i set up another then refresh button is needed couse otherwise i
a.) Need to wait
b.) Need to disable enable Wireless. And this in cases when connection still needed isnt acceptable.

Slution
2x clicking on wifi icon refreshes or on clikck witch opens menu- while menu open it refreshes. Showing identification "Refreshing" and that wireless to witch is it still connected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-41.88-generic 2.6.32.59+drm33.24
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-41-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 2 10:53:27 2012
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
IpRoute:
 192.168.43.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.43.27 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.43.1 dev wlan0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet

Brainstorm entry about this: http://www.brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8326/

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Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo) wrote :
Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
tags: added: quantal
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

This is feasible now that we can do on-demand scanning. The issue is mostly just how to expose that in UI, and discussing with design *whether* we want to expose that.

Setting to Triaged/Wishlist.

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
summary: - NM manual refresh
+ Provide a way to do on-demand wifi scanning from applet
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

I see the bug was filed against Lucid though. It will definitely *not* get fixed in Lucid. If we add this feature it will only be available starting with Raring (13.04).

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Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo) wrote :

Ouh i will never use that seeing 12.04 and testing its performance
ok ;(

description: updated
description: updated
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William Poetra Yoga (williampoetra-7) wrote :

Hi, may I know what's the status of this bug? Any chance we will be seeing it implemented? Sorry for asking, but I also would love this feature.

And maybe (probably) I can contribute some patches, will they be accepted?

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