[Bug 386900] Re: "Auto eth0" in notifications is confusing

[Mathieu Trudel]

Yup, I'll be looking at this one; let's work to get this *really* fixed
in Natty.

That said, I see a number of issues. While I agree it seems confusing to
designate the connection as "Auto eth0", it really does have a reason to
exist: it's an automatically added connection when NM is installed, that
uses the eth0 interface to connect. This could easily be changed to
something different, like "Default Wired Connection".

Looking at the latest patch applied I'm a little against making changed
to tooltips (or other places for that matter) to not display the
connection that is being used. In some cases, a user could have
different wired connections (such as how to deal with being at work or
being at home), and thus removing the connection's name would cause
confusion.

Ideally you want to make sure what is written in a tooltip or
notification matches the options available in the nm-applet dropdown
where you choose the connection.

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"Auto eth0" in notifications is confusing
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Status in NetworkManager: New
Status in Network Manager GNOME Applet: New
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Hi,

When I first starting using Ubuntu (a couple of years ago) I really had to look up what "eth0" was. And I still think this is really confusing and potentially scaring for non-tech people.

"Connected to Auto eth0" or "Could not connect to Auto eth0" doesn't  really sounds that good?

Maybe changing Auto to Standard or Default? Maybe "Connected to wired network (eth0)"?

There is surely a more elegant way for fixing this, but my English isn't that good.

Thanks