On Thursday 19 April 2007 17:29:23 Michal Zugec wrote:
On Št 19. Apríl 2007, Martin Lasarsch wrote:
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:59, Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
Hi,
there is a new idea for editing addresses of a network card: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Network_Card_Module (it is in the mockup gallery beneath: "Editing addresses of a network card") The basic idea was to hide the setup possibilities people are not using very often (like: AUTOIP and DHCP+AUTOIP) in a combo box, which cleans up the design and decreases possible confusion of non-technical users. To avoid confusion for non-expert users there is currently the suggestion that the user has to enable additional addresses via a check box.
I am looking forward to your comments!
thanks for the opportunity to give comments, here they are:
When i use the module i use it for 95% to change DHCP to static address. To bad i have to click in your mockups on a tab to do it.
The global_generalsettings comes as the first screen? To much information, this should be imho hidden in a "advanced" tab, or when i see it correctly make it the 2nd tab on the networkcard_global_device screen and start with "devices" tab. Use good defaults and the user will never bother to use this screen.
Hi Martin, "Network Devices" is default tab (it's not shown there, but it is)
networkcard_global_device: I agree with the wrong naming of the buttons, it should be "configure" instead of "Edit" and "disable" instead of "Delete"
I agree with "Configure", but not with "Disable". Disable means that YaST will keep your configuration but button will delete it.
networkcard hardware for the "Driver" option there should be a possibility to choose from a list, but also to enter the module manually.
Yes, that's current status. Also there is checkbox to write or not hardware configuration (you don't need when your device is recognized by kernel)
For the "Interface Name" there should be a drop down menu with most used names.
It is exactly now
Networkcard address I wish a drop down menu for "IP Address" and "Subnetmask" with the last 5-10 entered items. This is very handy when you switch networks a lot and don't use dhcp. Even better, make a new drop down button where you can easy switch between work, home, friend, cafe, whatever and it will change all your settings. This might be better hidden in an advanced tab, where you can save, edit, delete the settings. Yes, you can do it also with other tools, but this is, or networkmanager, imho the place where it should be.
Nice idea. We have scpm in distribution for that, but integration in YaST would be nice. Could you write fate-request for this?
Bye, Michal
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