[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Rework the wireless control panel section to respect non-wireless connections

[Daniel Narvaez]

In F20 you have list with checkboxes near each item, so you can click all
the checkboxes and then press the Forget button.


On 22 January 2014 02:42, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> daniel wrote:
>  > On 22 January 2014 01:04, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>  >
>  > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:41:04AM +0100, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
>  > > > I'm referring to this patch, I couldn't find it before.
>  > > >
>  > > > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/153
>  > > >
>  > > > It's actually per network, not per device, so it only forgets
>  > > > present networks.
>  > > > Can you explain why we need to be able to forget non-present ones?
>  > >
>  > > To prevent a host from automatically connecting to a network that
>  > > was previously available and connected to, but is not at the moment,
>  > > due to distance or the network being off.
>  > >
>  > > This may be done because of a change of ownership of a host, or a
>  > > change in the trust level of a network.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Ok. The button is not really a good UI for that use case but it's
> probably
>  > something we don't want to regress.
>  >
>  >
>  > > Is there any way at all to restore that security feature after
>  > > removal the "Discard network history" button?
>  > >
>  >
>  > Not that I can think of, other than nmcli.
>  >
>  > So... I think we need design input here. Would a history list with a
> forget
>  > button a la GNOME be a good way handle that use case?
>
> i've only seen the last few messages in this thread, so my comment
> may be off-base, but:  i've always found the networkmanager UI to
> be sorely lacking.  i often find that the network list has grown
> quite long, including things like "linksys" and "netgear" (i wonder
> where _those_ were?), and every starbucks or airport wifi i've visited
> in the last 6 months.  to unclutter my UI involves at least 3 clicks
> per network (or maybe 4:  scroll, select, delete, confirm).  i've
> always wanted it to be a "select all the networks you'd like to
> delete" interface instead.
>
> part of the issue is that the "remembered" networks are remembered
> even if a previous connection attempt was unsuccessful.  this means
> that clicking on "open" networks that aren't really open will grow
> the list, as will selecting a non-guest network by mistake.
>
> paul
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
>



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Daniel Narvaez
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