Olá Mackenzie e a todos.

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 21:26:05 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> I thought he was saying that the OEMs agreed with you...

I'm sleepy and have bad memory, but AFAIR this all tread as been kept active 
because Design Team as one or more _closed source_ studies from OEMs that state 
that the old icon as bad UI, while most of us actually like it and understood 
it.
The current icon is way better then the one that lead me to email the list.... 
so thanks for listening to us, showing that asking us for feedback can and will 
make Ubuntu better, without the need for us to brining fire and rocks to the 
table.
Now we only have to expect that the Design Team (and other not so Community 
driven Canonical Task forces) talk to us, let us know their ideas, put them on 
a PPA and let us try them to get feedback. 
We have seen the Artwork Team do this in the past and AFAIR it worked out 
pretty well, dont you?

As promised, I again asked today, the new batch of students of my FOSS class, 
while showing off Ubuntu (GNOME) 8.10, what they though about the 
update-notifier icon, and the NM icon.
As expected (by me and many others here) pretty much all of them stated that to 
see an *red* icon popup on the tray would lead them to either hover the mouse 
over to see a balloon or click on it. A popunder was heavily discourage by the 
more advanced users too.
Since all of them came from Windows, the NM icon was a well known icon, but 
gave them extra options. The only thing they always request me to show them is 
to explain how to get VPN working (mandatory on our University). It has a been 
a *long* standing bug to include NM-PPTP on the default Desktop install (but 
size restrains, not many users using it, etc) as kept it back, but needing net 
to install a package to have network seems a bit ironic to me!
Also the new NM interface to set a VPN requires a few extra mouse clicks (after 
NM-pptp is installed), making it an even more hard to get concept.
Going OT, would any one go For or Against having NM vpn option auto launching 
some kind of VPN friendly UI to get the NM-pptp/openvpn/cvpn like we do for 
codecs?

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