[Sugar-devel] Proxy Control Panel (Was: New Dextrose-3...)

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 20:14 +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>> My points to not doing that from beginning, were:
>>
>> * it is sepparate dialog in Gnome-2 (dunno about Gnome-3) and Firefox
>
> Agreed.
>
>> * we don't have tabs in CP components and having all Network related
>>   stuff in one CP component will make it huge
>
> After seeing the screenshot, I realized that there was way too much
> stuff to merge it into the Network control panel.
>
>
>> * we already have separate CP components for Network and Modem
>
> This always felt a little awkward to me.
>
> If someone had the time to work on UI cleanups, I'd prefer to see both
> the Network and Modem control panels be replaced by options directly
> associated with the objects they manipulate:
>
>  - a radio-off checkbox in the popup menu of the wifi device
>

While we are at it, I think a radio button is a better choice for
radio on/off instead of the check box. I have a hard time remembering
what happens when you check the box :-)

Sameer

>  - a settings dialog that pops up the first time you try to connect
>   to a 3G network, like the WEP/WPA password dialog
>
>  - a new icon in the network view representing the schoolserver.
>
>
>> In any case, this is the exact question to people who are skilled in
>> GUI usability field, not to developers.
>
> Agreed, but the two groups overlap at least in part and sugar-devel is
> the forum where they come together.
>
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> Bernie Innocenti
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