On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > What are the chances of getting a connection properties dialogue, much > > like (or completely stolen from) the one in gnome-netstatus? > > Argh, ugh, ick. Okay, thanks to Jan for pointing out the existence of the > context menu. Two comments: > > 1) The gnome-netstatus dialogue is way cooler.
I'm not sure what it has that Robert's dialog does not, other than the bytes sent/received... The Support tab has the same stuff that the NM Connection Info dialog does, while the General tab doesn't seem all that useful for two reasons: a) it allows you to pick a device, but NM by design (right now) supports only one active device, and b) it shows signal strength, which is what the NM applet icon shows. What specific things were you looking for? > 2) Does this thing have to have a context menu? :-) Note that my thinking about the menu layout (and Brian's for that matter) isn't set in stone or anything, but we have a few guiding principles for starters. The idea here is that only commonly used things go in the main menu. ie, hopefully your network won't be so flaky that you need to talk to a support person every day, therefore you don't really need to clutter up the main menu with a menu item that you don't actually need. We've talked about the "Wireless Network Discovery" menu as being completely unnecessary going forward, as we can achieve the same results by monitoring battery/ac status, backing scans off more aggressively, and blacklisting cards that have issues scanning (namely a/b/g combo cards). So, if the only things left in the context menu are the About item and the Connection Information item, it may not make sense to keep the Connection Info thing in the right click menu. If that's the case, we could either make gnome-netstatus aware of NetworkManager and remove the connection info stuff from the nm applet entirely, or we could move the Connection Info item to the main menu. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
