http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12079
--- Comment #11 from Renee Danson Sommerfeld <renee.danson at sun.com> 2009-11-06 01:33:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > Okay, let's try and think this through again, then. > > Green should mean that every NIC you expect to be connected, is connected. In > NWAM terms, I guess that means that every manually-enabled NCU, and that at > least one enabled NCU in the active priority group (if there is an active > priority group at all), are connected. Yes, I think that makes sense. > If one or more of those NICs are not connected, then it would be misleading to > show green. Therefore we have to show either orange or red. I think orange is reasonable for "the minimal requirements (defined in Calum's first paragraph) are not met". > The question then, is: how important is it to distinguish, via the panel icon, > that you have *some* connectivity (e.g. one cable is plugged in, but one is > unplugged), versus *no* connectivity (e.g. both network cables unplugged, but > nwamd is still running normally)? I don't think that's important. I also think if you start going down that path, there turn out to be too many subtly different situations that you just can't boil it down to a discrete number of states. > Those two states are what the orange and red states currently distinguish. Is > this useful? If so, do we actually need a fourth state for 'nwamd has stopped > running for some reason'? Or do we just not show the icon at all while NWAM > isn't running, because it serves no useful purpose at that point anyway? I think red for no nwam, orange for I don't have the minimal stuff online that I expect, and green for the minimal stuff is online makes the most sense to me. -- 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.
