Current access point should not change until it is active

I believe the problem lies here:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-network/trunk.14.10/view/head:/network/wifi-link-item.h#L207

Thanks for the report. I wll see what I can do.

Or maybe not even then? It seems very confusing for me if I scroll down the list, select an entry, enter password, and then the entry "disappears" because it got warped up above past where I've scrolled.

Note that the welcome wizard also suffers from this problem, if the wi-fi list it presents is large.

Michael, the converse problem is that you open System Settings, or the Network menu, and you can't see which network is active because it's off the bottom of the screen. When I specified the network menu, I addressed this problem by saying it should show a maximum of 6 networks (always including the active one, if any), so that there would be no scrolling. But that subtlety has been lost since, and anyway, it wouldn't work for System Settings which doesn't have the luxury of showing only a subset of networks.

Anyway, I suggest that when you choose a network, it should stay put. After any authentication, a spinner should appear. Then finally when the network actually connects, it should ascend smoothly into the "Connected to:" slot, while the previously active network, if any, descends to its alphabetical position.

@mpt

limiting the number of accesspoints inside the indicator menu is still on the table. It's just a High priority, so we will get to that ASAP.

I would love to have the thing implemented in the system-settings as you described, but currently it's not possible. The best we can do is to move the active access point to the top and scroll the view so that it does not get "lost".