Just a couple of more comments.. Calum Benson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:40 -0700, Ann Sunhachawee wrote: > > >> -- Do you think there is a way (tooltip or gray text in BSSID) to >> indicate to the user what BSSID actually is? >> > > Do you mean what it's for, or what the format should be? Former should > be covered when you click Help, I would think (although it's probably > one of those things that if you don't know what it is, you shouldn't be > trying to enter a value for it)... we could certainly put an example > under the text box for the latter, though. > I think the latter - putting an example so that users understand the format. > > >> -- What text shows when no wireless networks are available at all? >> > > Good question, probably just "None", given the text above the table. > > The other possibility is that this dialog should just never be shown > when there are no wireless networks available... right now it's only > shown when a user's decision is required during an automatic connection > attempt, there's no button or menu item you can click to open it > directly. So if there's no network for the user to choose, I'm not sure > there's any point in showing the dialog; ultimately the panel icon will > just show you as not connected to any wireless networks, and if you > click that you'll see there are none available. (Maybe we could show an > alert instead of the 'no networks' dialog; just need to think back > through the possible scenarios here a little here before deciding, I > guess.) > Seems ok not to show the dialog if nothing is available (Windows shows that nothing was found in a little balloon pop-up).
one question is if there is any ability in the UI for the user to manually refresh the network list? I know that Windows does, and it's from a similar dialog listing the available networks (even if there are no available networks) Thanks, Ann
