On 4/23/07, Martin Schmidkunz wrote:

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 :-)

A few quick thoughts and questions: * How exactly will the profiles work? I can see the usecase for when you switch between locations and don't want to enter the same things, but will a profile be compulsory to get things working? * I'm not sure that it's instantly clear in http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/f/f6/Nw_settings_devices.png that the 'Configure Network Card Device' button configures the currently-selected item (since there is other options and text in between it and the selection area). I see part of the problem though: the configure profile button needs to go below the profile selection part, and having one button above the text and one below is messy. Hmm. On a more minor issue -- overuse of borders? There are dangers with it; hm, Jimmac had a nice link somewhere I believe. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros Web: http://francis.giannaros.org IRC: apokryphos on irc.freenode.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-usability+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-usability+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 23 April 2007 23:31:29 Martin Schmidkunz wrote:

PS: Will, I will really try to talk to you this week about the Network Manager stuff :-)

Good, because I can add at least one other persona: ** Will, spare time admin, who wants the family laptop to work with the home wireless network no matter which of the configured users picks it up, but also wants it to be able work with foreign networks when it is out of the house, without the users having root. Will -- Will Stephenson Desktop Engineer Interfaces and Applications -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-usability+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-usability+help@opensuse.org