On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:44:04 Matthew Toseland wrote:
I propose a permanently visible status bar in fproxy, which would
combine various current and proposed features. It would occupy no
more than 2 lines vertically, and preferably more like 1. It would
include:
- The Simple vs Advanced mode switch.
- The current security levels.
- The selected language.
- A very brief summary of the current useralerts.
Hence, something like:
| English | Switch to advanced mode | Security: NORMAL NORMAL
NORMAL | 16 critical messages, please read them!
With appropriate tooltips (<a title=> mouseovers), links and
dropdowns.
I am not sure about the last part though. If we can sufficiently
compact the messages, it may be better to actually display them, or
at least any high priority messages, on all pages? Hence:
| English | Switch to advanced mode | Security: NORMAL NORMAL
NORMAL | 5 messages, click here
CRITICAL ERROR: YOU ARE BUSTED
CRITICAL ERROR: YOU ARE STILL BUSTED
CRITICAL ERROR: KNOCK, KNOCK!
Or:
| English | Switch to advanced mode | Security: NORMAL NORMAL NORMAL
ERROR: Firewall problem
INFO: You have 5 new messages from your Friends
Thoughts?
Dieppe said we should always have "Shutdown the node" and "Restart
the node" visible, this could also be part of the status line,
however IMHO it's not a good idea. We should however have a system
tray applet for the same purpose.
Well... many things would be nice, it's simply a question of screen
real-estate & usability.
In your example, always displaying the security levels seems
redundant. As would having shutdown/restart....
I guess what I'm thinking is like a conventional menu system, then we
can "hide" many controls or info messages into a single word/icon.
+---------+----------------+--------------+
| Control | Security Level | Messages (3) |
| - - - - \-----\ ---------+--------------+
| Pause network |
| Shutdown node |
| Restart node |
+---------------+
Would such a status bar be visible when browsing "freesites" or only
on "node pages"?
--
Robert Hailey
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