Hi there, during the weekend I rethought my network settings module mock-ups and made new ones. http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Network_Card_Module The new mock-ups base on the following assumptions: * The goal of the module is to set up basic network settings * The following personas may use the module: ** Carla, a student, who uses openSUSE on his laptop and often needs to change between different configurations ** Mike, a sysadmin, who uses openSUSE in a network and needs to do a lot of configuration ** Thomas, a pupil, who uses openSUSE to connect himself to the internet via his network card. I draw the following conclusions: * Thomas doesn`t want to bother himself with the network settings, so he just hopes that the recommended settings are sufficient to allow him to connect his DSL modem * Mike is happy, that openSUSE offers him such a detailled configuration, but he doesn`t want to do the configuration all the time * Carla is a non-technical user, so she needs to switch between the profiles very easily. These conclusion imply: * the network settings should allow the user to use automatic IP address setup via DHCP and automatic DNS selection per default or maybe via a profile called "Broadband/DSL" or something * profiles can be easily applied and selected either to switch between different network settings to spare time while making a new one (no body likes to do nearly the same work twice and this reduces the amount of possible errors as well). What do you think about that concept? As always I am looking forward to your comments! Enjoy, Martin PS: Will, I will really try to talk to you this week about the Network Manager stuff :-) --------------- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz@novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux ------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-usability+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-usability+help@opensuse.org