#2866 HIGH 8.2.0 (: Network Manager GUI doesn't report success or failure

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#2866: Network Manager GUI doesn't report success or failure
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   Reporter:  gnu     |       Owner:  mtd                              
       Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                              
   Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)             
  Component:  sugar   |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Resolution:          |    Keywords:  8.2.0:? 9.1.0:+ polish:8.2.0 r?  
Next_action:  code    |    Verified:  0                                
  Blockedby:          |    Blocking:  3993, 6995                       
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Comment(by mtd):

 Replying to [comment:21 HoboPrimate]:
 > Don't want to be pushing others to do work :/ but the info could still
 be presented a little better.

 Well it's not really being presented at all (keep in mind I haven't told
 eben the steps available, and they're likely to change a bit in 0.7).
 Thanks for the suggestions - it's easy to do something nice with them (see
 below).

 > If all, or some of [NM activation steps] are happen in Sugar when
 connecting

 Indeed, I'm seeing NM "activation stages" easily:

 {{{
 grep wireless-model ~/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log
 1219615816.969442 DEBUG root: wireless-model: None activation stage now 1
 1219615817.027726 DEBUG root: wireless-model: None activation stage now 2
 1219615821.281653 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 4
 1219615821.288158 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 4
 1219615826.206515 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 5
 1219615826.217288 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 5
 1219615826.233362 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 6
 1219615826.240385 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 6
 1219615827.270801 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 7
 1219615827.376867 DEBUG root: wireless-model: cdc2 activation stage now 7
 }}}

 (the None/cdc2 text is what nmclient.py tells me the ssid is)

 > it would be good to have this information in the network icon secondary
 palette, especially when something goes wrong and the user can then see at
 which step it failed.

 I agree, though strings are an issue right now, I think.  So far I've been
 quite careful to avoid changing any, and the only one that is new - "IP
 address" - is 1) new - I seem to remember that's better than a change; 2)
 quite integral; and 3) arguable unnecessary to translate.

 > Adding an acompanying progress bar (of 5 steps) (
 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2866#comment:2 ) at the top of the secondary
 palette would be the cherry on top of this cake.

 This would be easy, but we already have a progress bar for strength;
 suggestions welcome for how to differentiate the two (do you really mean
 in the secondary text?  That's...hmm...interesting...if it were possible
 and somehow "smaller", it'd fit quite nicely nuzzled below the
 "Connecting..." secondary text, perhaps).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2866#comment:22>
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