[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Network view refresh button

[Emil Dudev]

I changed the icon to be view-refresh.
Patch: https://github.com/edudev/sugar/compare/ticket3877.patch
But I don't think that the button should be in the network palette. It
refreshes only the jabber server. It does not connect/reconnect to the
network.

If I'm mistaking, there was a second ticket/gci task, which was directed to
a wifi rescan feature. It's goal was to force a scan in environments with
many available networks (the list is limited to 20 access points, or
something).
If I remember correctly, I was unable to complete this task, as I couldn't
find a wifi network adapter. But I think someone else took the task and
completed it.

Emil Dudev


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> 2014/1/6 Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org>:
> > 2013/12/11 Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>:
> >> +1
> >>
> >> The networking / collaboration stack is big and complex, and interact
> with
> >> power management and timing issues,
> >> in ways difficult to solve for all the cases.
> >>
> >> Dextrose used (and we include in AU image) a patch to disable
> suspend/resume
> >> while a activity is being shared [1] and the associated ticket [2] show
> how
> >> complex is the issue.
> >>
> >> I think be we should include this patch, and disable suspend/resume
> when the
> >> user is in the neighborhood view too.
> >>
> >> Gonzalo
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> https://github.com/godiard/au1b_rpms/blob/master/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/0001-Inhibit-suspend-while-a-activity-is-shared-OLPC-1036.patch
> >> [2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10363
> >
> > I agree Emil patch is simple, and the solution is easy.
> >
> > I agree with Gary that the solution is wrong, the collaboration stack
> > should just work without the user intervention.
> >
> > I agree no one wants to invest time fixing the collaboration stack for
> > real, so I agree to go with a workaround.
> >
> > Just want to ask, couldn't this be workarounded without requiring the
> > user intervention?  For example checking from time to time if the
> > network is connected, and if not performing a refresh.
> >
> > I just hope more of us drop tears each time we sacrifice Sugar
> simplicity :)
>
> In case of going with Emil's patch,
>
> - I think the button is better placed in the network palette
>
> - The icon in the patch is module-updater.svg, which has a down arrow
> inside,
>   I think view-refresh.svg is better.
>
> Mockup attached.
>
> --
> .. manuq ..
>
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