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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] User interface to the network control center</H1>
+ <B>Juergen Harms</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] User interface to the network control center">Juergen.Harms at unige.ch
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+ <I>Fri Mar 4 10:28:54 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>I delayed this issue for quiet times - this may be a good moment:
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+When configuring / (dis)connecting a wlan interface, the user interface
+to the network control center is not as &quot;bright&quot; as it could be: the
+user does not get enough feedback on the success of what he wants to be
+done.
+
+When you connect or dis-connect a wlan interface, a small
+&quot;(dis)connecting&quot; window pops up, and after some labour disappears again
+- that is all. The user would expect:
+
+ - that the icon in the &quot;Wireless (Wifi)... &quot; line (1st line of the
+ &quot;wlan&quot; section of the display be updated (icon with the red
+ checkbox if disconnected, transmitter icon if connected),
+
+ - the label of the &quot;Connect/Disconnect&quot; button (right bottom below
+ the display of available interfaces) be updated to reflect the
+ new state,
+
+ - the antenna-icon the selected line of the available interfaces be
+ updated (there is also some background shading that reflects the
+ state of the connection and is not updated).
+
+The popup window just goes away and leaves the display as it was before
+asking to change the state of the connection - the only way to verify
+success is to stop the network control center and launch it again - when
+it comes up again it will show the correct state.
+
+Is this a bug to be filed? - the network control center does not have a
+dys-function, but the user-interface &quot;is wrong&quot; (or is this a question
+of personal taste?)
+
+There is also a secondary issue with the choice of the icons: the
+&quot;disconnected&quot; icon is a transmitter with a single circle, the
+&quot;connected&quot; icon has several circles - all in light shades, not very
+well to discriminate form the lightly shaded background.
+
+Yet another improvement would be if the yellow popup you get when
+hovering over the network icon in the system tray would not only
+indicate details of the wired connection, but also those of a connected
+wlan - or is this an &quot;upstream&quot; issue? - and it is a clear wish for an
+enhancement.
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