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

[Paul Fox]

simon wrote:
 > On 05/03/2010 10:32 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
 > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>  wrote:
 > >> The color, hmmm. As color is something important in the sugar user
 > >
 > > alternative ideas:
 > >
 > >   - single-vs-double-line for the circle's border
 > >
 > >   - continuous vs dotted line for the circle's border
 > >
 > >   - make the bg colour of the icon "transparent" (or equal to the bg
 > > color of the neighbourhood canvas)
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > m
 > 
 > Are those alternative ideas to indicate if the network is active?
 > 
 > To summarize the current status: there are four things we want to show 
 > in the icon:
 > 
 > - channel number (currently done with the maya numerals)

which i think are neat, btw -- thanks to whoever thought of that.

 > - I am connected to the network (currently done in the same way we do it 
 > for APs)
 > - color of the icon itself (I would choose the color of the user, like 
 > we do for the mesh icons)
 > - someone else is already connected to the network (one idea was to add 
 > a badge)

can the last item be kept current?  for example, what happens if
this laptop joins an existing net, then later becomes the leader,
then later becomes the only member?  again, due to the anonymous
nature of ad-hoc networks, i'm not sure i see the importance of
this.  and we don't provide similar indication for the mesh.

paul
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