"3G networks detected" notification bubble displays wrong icon

what is used is nm-device-wwan ... which is the tower symbol. Problem is that we cannot replace that without changing the other uses of that icon (tray + connection editor).

so i see three ways to tackle this:

 1. change all usages of that icon by replacing it in human icon theme
 2. change the applet code to use a different icon for just this notification (which one?)
 3. add a hack to notify-osd to map the nm-device-wwan to the proper icon name

For Jaunty we cannot patch network manager to lookup the right icon for the notification so we will add a link to the human-icon-theme package which points to the name it currently uses

adding human-icon-theme to reflect option 1. from https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/362836/comments/2

changing the icon in the human theme (option 1) would affect the UI in three places:

 1. panel/tray icon used when connected to 3g (currently its the tower)
 2. icon used for the mobile broadband tab in the nm-connection-editor
 3. icon used in the notification this bug is about

Unfortunately, changing the icon in the human theme makes the panel and connection editor versions look horrible. The only correct way I can see to do this is to change the lookup name in network manager for the notification bubble version

> The only correct way I can see to do this is to change the lookup name in network manager for the notification bubble version

OK,

a. what icon shall we use in the notification then? does that exist yet?
b. what icon should we ship as a fall back for non-human themes (we need to ship the fallback in the applet package)?

Alexander Sack wrote:
>> The only correct way I can see to do this is to change the lookup name
>>
> in network manager for the notification bubble version
>
> OK,
>
> a. what icon shall we use in the notification then? does that exist yet?
>

Yes, it exists. It's vertical bars with the little "3G" label in the top
left. Ken Wimer knows which one this is.

> b. what icon should we ship as a fall back for non-human themes (we need to ship the fallback in the applet package)?
>
>
Whatever is the current default non-Human for 3G. Ken?

M.

notification-gsm-3g-full.svg is the icon that should be used and is already installed in the human theme. Whatever icon was being used before should be used for the non-human icon theme case

Heads up that we won't do this for jaunty as it requires CD changes and doc team coordination.

Also its only a one time notification so its _not_ something the user regularly sees - making this glitch less severe.

This bug was fixed in the package human-icon-theme - 0.34

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human-icon-theme (0.34) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Kenneth Wimer ]
  * New release (LP: #411395)
  * Fixing mistaken index changes for fallback icons

  [ Daniel Holbach ]
  * debian/control: bump Standards-Version, no changes.

human-icon-theme (0.33.9~ppa7) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding xdg user dir icons at 16, 24, 48, and scalable to fix lp: #126103

human-icon-theme (0.33.9~ppa6) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Removing private icon design from open package

human-icon-theme (0.33.9~ppa5) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding svg and png for unr-applications-education

human-icon-theme (0.33.9~ppa4) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding new icon for touchscreen calibration, sysaptic and update manager

human-icon-theme (0.33.9~ppa3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding gnome-display-properties in most sizes

human-icon-theme (0.33.9~ppa2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Changing fallback from Tangerine to Humanity to fix UNR bugs shortly before release.

human-icon-theme (0.33.9~ppa1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding unr-preferences-system category icon in svg and 48x48 png

human-icon-theme (0.33.8) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding category icons for UNR at both 48x48px as well as svgs

human-icon-theme (0.33.7) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Moving entries around in index.theme and including new 16x16 gtk-close icons to fix LP: #385903
  * Adding battery state icons for notify-osd
  * Adding larger sized category icons to make UNR look nicer

human-icon-theme (0.33.6ubuntu5) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Fixing GSM disconnected icon to fix LP: #369139

human-icon-theme (0.33.6ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding link from notification-gsm-3g-full.svg to nm-device-wwan.svg to fix LP: #362836

human-icon-theme (0.33.6ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Adding empty battery status icon for notifications and links to legacy names to fix LP: #361664

 -- Kenneth Wimer <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:46:21 +0200