Ok, this has me just a tad confused - what "ssh" icon do you refer to here? Because, if it is the icon that displays next to the battery icon visible from the desktop, then I see nothing there indicating a connection.

[silly me - you were referring to this version and indeed such a marker appears. I think it is a little cluttered and changing it to orange would be a simpler way of showing the same. My 2 cents worth :-) ]

I was referring to that "ssh" icon. I accept your rationale regarding yellow, but what if it displayed orange when a connection(s) was active. In the drop down that shows when the battery area is pressed, orange is used to show the no. of active connections, hence my preference now for that colour.

I will test 1.3-pre. So far, modifying the parameter as you suggested a few posts back to 3 seems to give stability, but let's see wgat your new approach brings....