[Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

[Eben Eliason]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Christian Schmidt<schmidt at pentagram.com> wrote:
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> ________________________________
> From: Tomeu Vizoso [mailto:tomeu at sugarlabs.org]
> To: Daniel Drake [mailto:dsd at laptop.org]
> Cc: Gary C Martin [mailto:gary at garycmartin.com], Christian Marc Schmidt
> [mailto:schmidt at pentagram.com], Sugar-dev Devel
> [mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org], Eben Eliason
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> Sent: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:54:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback
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> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 06:17, Daniel Drake<dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 2009/8/22 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
>>> 1) Is it a bug that there are 2 'grey circles' showing the same "Create
>>> new
>>> wireless network" entry?
>>
>> It's acting as designed - showing the status of all the wireless
>> devices it can find in the system. eth0 and msh0.
>
> Is this desirable from the users POV?

This seems very confusing to me. Can you have an ad-hoc network on
both? Also, the mesh should have the mesh icon, which appears absent
in the screenshots. I concur with Gary that the light gray state is a
bug; the icons should be white stroke (no fill), or colored.

> Is there a place on the wiki where I can read up on this proposal? At first
> glance it seems confusing--at the last we should differentiate the two
> functions, but I'm also certain there is a better way to handle this
> interaction.

Agreed.

Eben


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> Christian
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> Regards,
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> Tomeu
>
>> Daniel
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