On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:24 +0100, van Schelve wrote: > We are planning to rollout NM > 0.8 to a very! big number of mobile Linux > systems. Our different usecases for NM are Ethernet, 3G datacards, > bluetooth based 3g and in small numbers wlan as well. > > Today we had a discussion about nm-applet in our companay. We are worried > about our user get overcharge with the usability of nm-applet. The biggest > painpoint we talked about in this context is way nm presents the available > devices, available connections and the active connections. > > The horizontal separator should be removed from nm-applet. It looks like a > logical separator between different connection types.
Hmm, the indentation was supposed to help make that clearer. The problem is that we do need a mechanism to distinguish between the "current" network connection for that device and it's associated actions (like disconnect) and the other available connections. Unfortunately we're currently stuck in a GtkMenu widget where we can't control the layout in a fine-grained manner without violating a lot of UI principles (since it is still a menu). > Maybe it could be a way using differnt font size / weight? Or maybe > indenting blockwise? It might work to make the "available" text in the line smaller perhaps to differentiate it more from the surrounding text? > Are there currently any plans to polish the nm-applet? Mainly plans to stop using a GtkMenu widget entirely and move to a more freeform widget. That's not in-progress yet though. Until then we can certainly discuss ways to make the current menu-based approach better, especially if we find that users are confused with it. We should have a lot better data on the new applet too given that both Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 shipped with it. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
