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

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 10:48:38 EST 2011


Have you guys taken a look at total parent control... its an all in one gui
that controls dansguardian, firehol, and squid, and is maintained quite
heavily by many side projects apart from canonical:

https://launchpad.net/webcontentcontrol

Its worth a look

kind regards,
David van assche

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>> {...}
>>
>> > 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
>>
>
> I find the wording around the box contributes to uncertainty about its
> action:
>
> Wireless
>
>      Turn off the wireless radio to save battery life
>
>      □  Radio
>
>      Discard network history if you have
>      trouble connecting to the network
>
>      (Discard network history)
>
> The 'Discard network history' button is always the affirmative action for
> the preceding advisory.  The 'Turn off' advisory for the Radio check box is
> only similarly aligned when the box is checked (otherwise, one might wonder
> does it 'Turn off' or 'Turn on' the radio).
>
>       --Fred
>
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