[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Default ad-hoc networks

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi,

olpc has decided to present ad-hoc networks like they did with mesh 
networks: three icons in the neighborhood view representing ad-hoc 
networks with the channels 1, 6, 11. This should preserve the workflow 
previously introduced and ease the use of ad-hoc networks. More details 
for the reasoning can be found in [1].

I think this is a great idea and should maybe be adopted by the upstream 
development, too. So here is what we found out so far:

- 3 icons in the neighborhood view representing the 3 channels
- we would need three different icons allowing to differentiate the 
different channels (an interesting idea is here [3])
- those icons should show the status like the Access Point icons does 
(connected/unconnected)
- if someone clicks on one of the icons he joins a possible existing 
networks or creates a new network
- a badge could indicate if a network is already 'active' created by 
someone else
- naming: so far we decided to not name the networks mesh networks to 
avoid confusion, some voted for 'local network' some for 'our network', 
others, votes?
- the option to create adhoc networks should be removed from the frame 
device to avoid confusion

What do people think about that? Can the design team help to make this 
happen?

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-December/026831.html
[2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9845
[3] 
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20100422/d9d33027/attachment-0001.png 
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/028315.html