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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Network Applet
From:       Jan Grulich <jgrulich () redhat ! com>
Date:       2013-10-20 9:55:09
Message-ID: 5263A87D.1010005 () redhat ! com
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Dne 19.10.2013 17:18, Aaron J. Seigo napsal(a):
> On Friday, October 18, 2013 11:15:50 Jan Grulich wrote:
>> Here is a screenshot with the second panel:
>> http://www.imagehosting.cz/?v=plasmatyt.png
> my opinion is that the second panel is not a good idea, at least not as shown
> in the screenshot. reasons:
>
> * the icons are not immediately obvious in function, but there is no room for
> text
> * they do not line up with the list items which makes the whole dialog look
> messy and probably puts requires cognitive load to process visually
> * they will not be used frequently, but are always shown
>
> if filtering is a must (i'm not personally convinced it is, but ok :) then i
> would suggest perhaps putting them in the bottom drawer that expands when
> clicked on.
>
> they could appear there as a horizontal row of icons which can be selected?
>

I wanted to have this panel as an option, so you can disable it when you 
want. There are still some people who miss the second panel from the old 
applet, they want to filter their connections, I don't know why, because 
for me it's useless, but I wanted to make everyone happy :). But we 
planned more then use this panel just for filtering. We can display some 
indicator for each connection type, so you instantly know you are 
connected to some wireless/wired connection or some kind of connection 
is unreachable and in this case when you click on it, we would display 
some information why you don't see any connection (wifi is disabled 
etc.). Right now I'm just playing with it, it's not pushed to git and 
any opinions are welcome.

Jan

-- 
Jan Grulich
Red Hat Czech, s.r.o
jgrulich@redhat.com


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