Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-usability (108 mails)

[Michal Zugec <mzugec@xxxxxxx>]

On Št 19. Apríl 2007, Martin Schlander wrote:
> Den Thursday 19 April 2007 13:37:46 skrev Francis Giannaros:
> > As cb400f has just mentioned to me on IRC, I think listing NM settings
> > in YaST is problematic. New users seem to think that they can
> > configure NM in yast, and hence have to enter IE ESSID/WEP keys etc
> > for wireless cards, which isn't really true at all :/
>
> Hm, Apo just made one of my points for me.
>
> Another thing, I believe should be adressed in a new and improved ui is the
> hostname and gateway stuff. I very often see people on IRC and in forums
> that have problems because they forget to enter DNS and/or gateway when
> they use static IP.
>
> There's of course two reasons for this:
>
> 1) Users being foolish
>
> 2) These settings being a little bit "hidden", making them easy to
> "forget".
>
> Solution - make it more dominant - or maybe show dns+gateway in the
> "summary" http://en.opensuse.org/Image:041007_networkcard_global_device.png


In fact there are another two tabs: Hostname/DNS and route not shown on 
screenshot.
Martin, we should update that screenshots to show "real" status. If needed 
I'll help you with that

M.
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