On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 08:26:46PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Aleksey Lim > <alsr...@activitycentral.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:59:07PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > >> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 23:21 +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: > >> > That patch was posted on @dx mailing list and is under review. > >> > > >> > https://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/1041/ > >> > >> Could someone please post a screenshot of the proxy control panel? > > > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings#UI_Design > > > >> Also, has anyone considered merging this with the Network control panel? > >> If we don't contain the growth, we'll soon have more control panel items > >> than Vista (-: > > > > My points to not doing that from beginning, were: > > > > * it is sepparate dialog in Gnome-2 (dunno about Gnome-3) and Firefox > > Its a separate tab in the Network dialog > > > * we don't have tabs in CP components and having all Network related > > stuff in one CP component will make it huge > > It would be too big without tabs. > > > * we already have separate CP components for Network and Modem > > If we had tabs I would suggest merging them all but we don't so I > think they're best separate for the time being. > > > In any case, this is the exact question to people who are skilled in > > GUI usability field, not to developers. > > I would put the automatic config option above the manual option.
It was implemented that way, because it exactly mimics the Proxy settings dialog in Gnome/Mozilla. Not sure if it makes sense to invent new usage workflow for people who will use it. -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel