More on GUI feedback: some reviewers expressed their disappointment with Properties Setting tab (see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/brussels/Documentation/proto6/). "...having to select the various properties in turn, and not being able to see the values of the others, would be very tedious..."
I designed two possible solutions for this problem. *1. Properties as a table with the value column being editable. * Advantage: having all the options for each property on display would be more helpful for the administrator to make the selection. Disadvantages: a. due to the dialog window size constrain no more than 6 properties could be displayed at a time (scrollbar is introduced). b. numerous dropdown controls in the column are hard to comprehend and add visual noise. *2. Properties as a table with non editable value column. User selects property and clicks edit button to bring up an Edit dialog box. * Advantage: having all the options for each property on display would be more helpful for the administrator to make the selection. Disadvantages: Advanced (extended) dialog window appears on top of the Network Configuration window. Property Edit dialog window becomes another yet "layer" of dialog window. Even if we make it module, user ends up with three dialog windows one on top of another which makes it easy to get lost... Please review these options and send me your feedback. Personally, I think that what we proposed initially is still the best UI approach. Thank you Jenya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/brussels-dev/attachments/20071116/142ec551/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: properties_united.png Type: image/png Size: 115912 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/brussels-dev/attachments/20071116/142ec551/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: properties_popups.png Type: image/png Size: 179405 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/brussels-dev/attachments/20071116/142ec551/attachment-0001.png>
