Current network isn't clearly visible on home page

[aspiers]

Checking which network is currently connected is one of the most commonly needed actions in a wallet, so it should be possible to do this immediately and easily by looking at the main page of the extension popup. There is a miniscule network icon within the icon in the top left corner, but this is far too small for it to be easy to differentiate, so currently you have to press n or click that icon.

Ideally the network name would be visible on the main popup, as well as the icon.

[DanielSinclair]

@aspiers The feedback is helpful here. I want to lay out more of our thinking, as we think this will improve soon. Rainbow was designed so that you can interact with different dApps across different networks at the same time — you don't need to switch the network in the wallet before you interact with a dApp, as the wallet is never isolated to a single network. You also don't need to approve network switches in a pop-up, so this is often just 1 click in dApps if you happen to be on the wrong network. We found that one of the most common issues is dApps and the wallet going out-of-sync with network selection, so we encourage the dapp to take precedence and request the appropriate network from the wallet (instead of the other way around). In the next few months, a new CAIP standard should be accepted that allows dApps to connect to multiple networks as the same time, so the "switch network" experience that we're tied to today with a singular network selection will completely disappear.

[aspiers]

@DanielSinclair Thanks a lot for the response. Yes I do appreciate that design, and I agree it's significantly superior to MetaMask, as forcing the user to manually approve network switches requested by the dApp is annoying. I also appreciate that allowing connections to multiple networks at the same time is coming.

That said, I still think it should be easy to see in the wallet which network(s) is/are connected. Apart from anything else, this is useful for security-conscious users to check that the dApp is doing what it claims it's doing, and for dApp developers to check that the dApp they are working on is doing what they want it to.