Network connections dialog unclear what 'never' means

It's not just new users. I have no idea what this means.

It hasn't yet showed 'never' for me, and I've followed the exact instructions above.

Just -> Auto $ESSID in the tab.

He meant edit connections and not connection info

It has been pointed out I should have used ubuntu-bug to file this, but of course the machine in question has no net connection (hence the bug report) so I can't.

Kernel: 2.6.27-9-generic x86
Ubuntu: 8.10 (although I do see the same in 9.04)
NM: 0.7.0

Attached screenshot of network manager from the device in question.

I was able to easily reproduce...

If you're connected to a WEP AP, right click, select Edit Connections, click the Wireless tab, and delete the AP in question.

Now go back and try to connect, but give it a bad key. After it fails, it'll show up with the "Never" tag.

I think a tooltip is the best solution as adding column headings might clutter things up.

Perhaps we should just change "never" to "never connected." That doesn't make it sound like your network manager thinks it should never make any attempt to connect to that network ever again, and does not require very much work at all.

forwarded upstream.

A short phrase that works better than "Never" is "Not Yet". Another alternative is "New"

I had no idea what the "never" meant 'til I saw "now" once when I had two connections to choose from. A related point is that I see the "never" tag when I have one connection and it's actually in use. Now that I know that it refers to the last time the connection was in use, I now see that it's behaving wrong to be displaying "never" in this case - it should be displaying "now" - any chance of getting that fixed, too, or is this a different bug?

The string we need to change is (in the original source)

src/connection-editor/mn-connection-list.c: (line 227)

  return g_strdup (_("never"));

The translations for this string are then located in the respective .po files at lines 816 & 817

This is now fixed in karmic alpha-4. Network manager has a column heading that says 'Last connected'.

Rugby471, I believe the exact wordsvin the column are "Last Used" , are you using English version or different language.

Yup, on my karmic system the column now says 'Last used'.

I am happy. Thanks.

Sorry guys, you are right I must have been tired when I wrote that :-)