On Mi, 2008-07-23 at 12:48 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 15:34 +0200, Tobias Wolf wrote: > > > > 1. "System setting" -- Is it clear enough what this does? How about > > "System-wide connection"? > > Not done yet, but I'm playing with making that an actual button at the > bottom-left, because we need the vertical space to add a Routes... > button in the IPv4 page. > > > 2. "MAC address:" -- Is this to spoof the MAC (no), or is it to limit > > the connection to the NIC specified by its MAC here (yes)? > > At the moment, this will lock the connection to a specific device by MAC > address. One suggestion was to have this be an editable combo box, with > the dropdown listing devices currently in the system. Still need to be > able to enter something random though. But the label likely needs to be > changed.
Cool, this is also what I suggested in bug #544384 a minute ago. > I'd also like to have an option to spoof the MAC address, but we'd need > to figure out where to put this in the UI. There's actually not a lot > of room left because we're hiding things like the port and speed that we > don't yet support. > > > What about adding bubble help for these? People would have to ask fewer > > questions on mailing lists and forums, right? > > Yes, tooltips or some other form of quickhelp is the plan here. Even > better would be adding a Help... button to each dialog and actually > having good help via yelp or whatever. Maybe both. You write the tooltip, and a contributor (like me) writes the Yelp texts... As requested, I filed bugs #544381, #544382, #544384, #544385, #544387. --Tobias _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
