[Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

[Gary C Martin]

Sorry, late to this party, but I've finally got a recent build with  
Tomeu's Ad-hoc network support installed on 2 XO's here for testing  
(no luck with SoaS-on-XO-1 builds yet, but F11-for-XO-1 build 5 works  
well). OK... some quick screen grabs and discussion.

Here's what it currently looks like for an XO:

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Hmmm... 2 grey circles... Hovering over both 'grey circles' shows this  
same palette:

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1) Is it a bug that there are 2 'grey circles' showing the same  
"Create new wireless network" entry?

2) The empty secondary palette strips feels like a bug, like some text  
is missing. Should it be used to show the title describing the  
palette? Perhaps something like "Wireless network\nInactive" would be  
a good?

3) Showing grey device icons feels like the old NM bugs we used to  
get, and IMO is a bit of device icon design flaw going way back.  
Inactive/disabled network devices should be just simple white  
outlines, as per other devices when not in use.

4) Obviously a new icon for when in ad-hoc mode will help, I'll try to  
make a few mock-ups and see if any work out.

Really great to see we have 'kids under a tree' scenario covered again  
in Sugar ? big high five for Tomeu! :-) Looks like we might need to  
try to get some feature dispensation from Mr Release Manager to apply  
some polish now we are sliding into the feature freeze.

Regards,
--Gary