telepathy-ofono

SIM names should default to carrier names

Bug #1450255 reported by Cris Dywan
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Invalid
Low
Olga Kemmet
telepathy-ofono
New
High
Unassigned
address-book-app (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
Unassigned
dialer-app (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
Unassigned
messaging-app (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
Unassigned
ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Right now whenever I need to pick a SIM card somewhere it says "SIM 1" and "SIM 2". That means I need to look up what the respective cards are on a regular basis to be sure which is which - there's no way I will remember this, not to mention when traveling I change cards and it's paramount for me to know what card is in there and not accidentally use the wrong one.

SIM switchers should display the names of the carriers rather than mere numbers.

Cris Dywan (kalikiana)
Changed in messaging-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in dialer-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

You can give a name to the SIMs in the settings, did you try to do that?

affects: address-book-app → address-book-app (Ubuntu)
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :

That I did not know. That's a nice work-around then until it works out of the box.

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

settings is a configuration UI, what do you expect us to provide more? "out of the box" is not a setting thing, configuration is...

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Alberto Mardegan (mardy) wrote :

It would be nice if the configuration UI allowed to set names to the SIMs (as it does now), but had also a useful default name in case the user doesn't change the name.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in address-book-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in dialer-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in messaging-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Alberto Mardegan (mardy)
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

can you please stop playing with the bug status and focus on providing useful info on what is needed that just reopening without giving the details requested?

Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :

Apologies for this, I didn't fully understand the situation. So apparently all of the apps involved read gsettings¹ to get the SIM names and there's no changes required.
Ofono should establish default names.

¹: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~system-settings-touch/gsettings-ubuntu-touch-schemas/trunk/view/head:/schemas/com.ubuntu.phone.gschema.xml.in.in

summary: - SIM switchers should display carrier names
+ SIM names should default to carrier names
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in messaging-app (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in address-book-app (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in dialer-app (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in ofono (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Invalid
affects: ofono (Ubuntu) → telepathy-ofono
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Invalid → New
Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I specced that the SIM ID include the phone number if there is one, otherwise the IMSI. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#sim-id>

However, some of the current display points for the SIM ID may not have enough space to do that, particularly the switcher in the Phone and Messages apps. <https://goo.gl/vn5wY6>

Using the carrier would work as long as your SIMs are from different carriers. I don't know how often that's true.

Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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