Hi Duncan! Thanks for your suggestions!
As you already pointed out, some of your ideas are already submitted into bugzilla for further discussion/fix: > *) System services: > - I suggest to use a small icon to show if running or not), may be a slightly > animated heartbeat (soft to the eyes). > - Start and stop do not need to be separated, you can't have stop if it is > not > started, they can use the same state (toggle) so the text switches to stop > after you start. > - I did not understand the "status" link, for me it looks more than a > "refresh" of the "running" text. This can be done by either having just one > refresh link for all, or just poll the server for changes using ajax. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546842 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546846 > *) Time > The two comboboxes could be replaced with an interactive worldmap + a textbox > to freewrite with autocompletion so you can either use mouse or keyboard. The > textbox can also not be present at all. Another idea would be: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556108 > *) Network > > A common problem of system managements applications is to accidentally expose > the configuration file format :-) an example: I think, we should use entry aids for every form field. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556854 > What I am suppose to enter there? It asks with plural, there is a single > field. What is "prefixlen"? AFAIK it is used for IPv6 and is something like a subnet mask. But maybe some of the experts can comment that better :-) > Another issue that may apply to other modules too is to make the difference > between the value that is retrieved from a textfield, to the value that is > displayed when it is empty. The user may not know the meaning of an empty > field. For example if using DHCP one could fill the nameservers field with > "Will be auto discovered". IMHO a better solution would be to present the detected values (e.g. IP address without the possibility to change them): https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546852 > *) Mail settings > > If security is disabled, then username/password should be disabled. If the > server is not configured, then even the security checkbox can be disabled too. Isn`t TLS independent of username/password? > *) Administrator password > > The 3 save buttons is confusing. IIRC kkaempf already reported this. It is > confusing because this module has the ability of doing instant apply before > clicking next, while network saves at "next" clicking time. I am sorry, but I have to be able to run the first boot wizard myself before I can verify that. Currently I am still fighting with virtualbox :-( > "Forward mail to", what goes there? an email address? How the user guess > that? > he needs to think, which is what we want to avoid. Here it may useful to > enter > an example greyed text that dissapears when focus is on the field (the field > value still could evaluate to empty) Good point! https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556851 Thanks again for your input! Best regards, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist [email protected] +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
