[Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 15:40, Eben Eliason<eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Christian Schmidt<schmidt at pentagram.com> wrote:
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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
>> [mailto:eben.eliason at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:54:13 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback
>>
>> 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.

Sorry, I only know of this:

http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/05/ad-hoc-wireless-networks-in-sugar.html

May be better to try it out, have you managed to install a F11-based
build in your XOs?

Regards,

Tomeu

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