[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

[Gary Martin]

On 1 Aug 2012, at 20:25, Anish Mangal <anish at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

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> On Friday 20 July 2012 04:05 AM, James Cameron wrote:
>> I don't think it should be in a section titled "Identity", because it
>> isn't an identifier, and is only related to serial number because of
>> implementation details.
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> Your probably right. IIRC the idea was to make that information visible
> alongside the Serial Number.
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> Does it make sense to move it to Software?

I don't have a strong objection to it being in Identity, but then again, I am not aware of many of the implementation details of the code behind it – also likely true for most folks reading it in the field.

If it moves to Software, perhaps it should go below the Firmware line? James is that more inkeeping with the implementation? The other option is for a new Lease section below the Identity section.

> I don't want to rename the sections because this feature should only be
> visible when the lease file is actually present.

On this point, the code seems to not behave you describe above. Testing on an XO-1, the DX3 build 143 International, I see an item in the Identity section saying "Lease: Not available". The wording "Not available" suggests something is missing from my XO when actually this machine does not need a lease, and is unsecured, this line of information should not be displayed at all to the user.

Regards,
--Gary

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>> I don't wish to constrain your creativity by saying how to fix that
>> though. I'm sure you can imagine many alternatives.
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> Anish Mangal
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