So a while back apparently Comcast was down in my area, but I didn't know that, so I kept trying a bunch of different wireless networks instead of the one I normally use. I successfully associated with most of them, but of course internet access didn't work (so I then tried another, until I figured out that the Internet was broken in general). The result is that all of them are in my preferred networks list, and it seems kind of random which one NetworkManager chooses to associate with when I get home and unsuspend my laptop. The problem is that some of them are slower or nonfunctional altogether. I'd like a way to tell NM that those networks are crap, forget about them. I guess I could use gconf-editor...but presumably we want a real way to handle this situation? One possible approach would be to have a fullblown dialog/window appear when you click on the icon instead of the menu. The dialog would have a button like "Remove" for the preferred list. Somewhat related - we should probably differentiate preferred networks somehow in the dropdown list as it is now too. This would be essential for the dialog too. Thinking about this a bit more, maybe another alternative is to have an internal "priority" for networks (does this already exist?). If I choose a different network immediately (say 10 seconds) after NM associates with one in my preferred list, the priority of the previously chosen one drops. If I do this enough, maybe it drops off the preferred list altogether.
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