http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12079
--- Comment #8 from Frank Ludolph <frank.ludolph at sun.com> 2009-11-02 16:52:40 UTC --- If the purpose of the color is to indicate the "quality of connectedness", which seems the user expectation, then green would be "all connections functioning normally", orange would be "connected but degraded", and red would be "not connected". Red in this case would cover both no connections functioning and nwamd stopped though the latter might be indicated by a fourth color, e.g. gray or black. (A non-functioning traffic signal is black; a non-functional icon is grey.) There are a couple of different situations covered by green, as above. There are cases when the user wants all of a defined set of connections to function. This seems straight forward - orange if any one or more fail. There are cases where there is a defined switching, e.g. to wireless when the wired connection is broken (green because this is the intended action of the way laptops are frequently used.) And there is switching for reasons of robustness (orange when the primary connection fails). Does NWAM distinguish between the two? If not orange is probably the better choice, meaning "primary connection is not functioning." -- Configure bugmail: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
