2013/4/22 Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > This is something that me, Jon and Jakub have been thinking about for > some time, and is now at the stage where we can start to think about > implementation. I'm proposing it as a feature for 3.10 [1].
It looks like all the pictures from the Research on this topic ( https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Research/StatusIndicators ) are missing (I'm getting a "forbidden" icon for each image) > The main element of the design is to combine the sound, network, > bluetooth, power and user menus into a single menu. This will enable > us to resolve a number of UX issues we've encountered with the > existing design (badness on touch, difficulties having the user name > in the top bar, lots of complexity in some menus, like network, > virtually none in others, like sound...). It will also give us greater > flexibility, and will allow us to deal with some features - like > airplane mode - in a more elegant and discoverable manner. > > More details are outlined on the wiki [2]. If you do look at the > designs, please pay particular attention to the example scenarios - > these give a clearer idea of what the menu will actually look like. > The designs aren't finalised yet, so comments and ideas are welcome. > > It should be said that, as with any design, there are tradeoffs here. > There are lots of advantages to this approach (see the design page), > but there are one or two actions that might require an extra click > with the new design. The primary example of this is switching wifi > networks: with the new design, this will require that you open the > system menu, click on the wi-fi entry, and then choose the network you > want from the control center panel (as opposed to just selecting the > network from the menu itself). > > However, while switching wi-fi networks will require an extra step, I > actually think that the the experience will be better with the new > design. The current network menu contains a lot of information that > isn't related to wi-fi, and isn't exactly straightforward to use - in > many respects, the new design will be more straightforward to use, > even if there is an extra click involved. Also, we are planning a new > wi-fi selection dialog, which should be a big improvement in those > situations where you are not already connected to a network. My main concern is the detection of "application needs network" and how it will properly integrate without modifying all applications so they interact with NetworkManager to request "I need network access". -- Frederic Crozat _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
