System Status Menu
Status: Complete
Description
The current system status area consists of a series of menus for different aspects of system status, such as networking, sound and power. This feature proposes to combine these into a single menu. Doing so will resolve a number of UX bugs and will also give us some additional features and flexibility not possible with the current approach.
More details on the (in development) updated design.
Owner
Involved Parties
Design: AllanDay, WilliamJonMcCann, JakubSteiner
GNOME Shell developers, in particular Jasper St. Pierre
Affected modules: gnome-shell, gnome-settings-daemon
Current Status
The design has gone through several iterations of review and refinement.
This feature has been discussed quite a bit on d-d-l: initial proposal, another thread
The branches have been merged for 3.9.90.
Some related bugs:
705647 New System Status design lost the ability to suspend - 705733 Make new system status implementation respect the always-show-universal-access-status setting
706191 System menu - align submenu labels with parent
- 706038 system status: battery status shown for a VM
- 706098 Network indicator always shows 'disconnected' for a wired connection
- 706136 Wi-fi dialog tweaks
- 706139 Misaligned sub-menu arrows
How to help
Contact any of the involved parties. Try the branch