[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN][FEATURE] 3G modem support

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 14:57, Daniel Castelo
<dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> As I told before I have made some improvements to this feature: tickets
> 1652-"Add Connection Information" and 1654-"Add Pin/Puk Configuration" (i
> wrote this in the feature page).
> To add Pin/Puk configuration support I need to handle the "Authentication
> Error". Now i am setting the message "Authentication Error" on the palette
> label. This message dissapear when user clicks. This is a good first version
> to display errors?

I think it's the best we can do for now. Any other ideas?

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 27 Jan 2010, at 15:25, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 16:06, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> I had a chance to apply the latest code that is attached in #1622 and
>> >>> played
>> >>> a bit with a gsm-device. I think we discussed this already in some
>> >>> parts
>> >>> before but I am still not sure about the following:
>> >>>
>> >>> With my device attached I see the modem and hit 'connect' in the
>> >>> device
>> >>> palette. I get no feedback when that action was not successful and
>> >>> what went
>> >>> wrong. And I have no hint that I should set options in the Control
>> >>> Panel.
>> >>>
>> >>> I know we wanted to keep it simple but maybe someone has a smart idea
>> >>> how
>> >>> one could enhance the feedback and a hint to use the control panel to
>> >>> set
>> >>
>> >> This sounds like a good time to revive the global notification idea.
>> >> The design intent there was to each corner of the screen with one edge
>> >> of the Frame (lower-right would be devices), and to have notification
>> >> icons (the device icon itself, usually) slide in and out of the
>> >> corners to grab attention in various cases, such as a failed
>> >> connection attempt.
>> >>
>> >> We also had thoughts about adjusting the contents of the palette in
>> >> these cases, to contain the error message, and also provide options to
>> >> resolve the issue. For instance, the GSM device might indicate a
>> >> failed connection and offer "try again" and "change settings" options.
>> >>
>> >> I think nailing this in a way that's useful system-wide and in all
>> >> edges of the Frame will take a bit of thought, but this is a good
>> >> opportunity to discuss it.
>> >
>> > I also agree there, but I think that for 0.88 we need something
>> > simpler to implement.
>>
>> Struggling to think of a friendly alternative, best I have just now is to
>> keep the palette open until the successful connection is made, you'd be
>> looking at a "connecting..." message or spinner of some kind (hopefully with
>> an option to cancel); once an error/timeout is reached you are left looking
>> at that message in the palette (until you click away).
>>
>> If the GSM device is not yet configured via the CP, should the device
>> palette just report that as the error (ideally with an entry to jump to the
>> CP, but that can be a future feature).
>>
>> Keep in mind we'll have similar UI needs for other devices needing
>> configuration (i.e. certainly the printer device GSOC project, if it ever
>> make it in to Sugar). Could be nice to offer a jump to the CP option for
>> other devices as well in the future (battery device could provide a jump to
>> the CP energy saving module; wifi device could provide a jump to the CP
>> network module).
>>
>> >>> the options? Didn't Eben suggested once to add an option to be able to
>> >>> launch the CP from within the device?
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, I think hot-linking directly to the CP module for variouos
>> >> devices would be a logical addition.
>> >
>> > Excellent feature for 0.90.
>>
>> +1 That seems very sane and useful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>
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