Got a lot of great comments from the NWAM engineers/writer on the
Configuration UI spec today. Here is the list of suggestions, areas
still open (NWAM engineers/writer.. your names are by some of them!),
and changes I plan to make.
Keep the feedback coming in! Thanks,
Ann
2.0 Summary Panel:
- Suggestion: When there are errors with network connection, mention
which IP addresses are up and available instead of the negative. e.g.
"11 out of 13 IP Interfaces working", where 13 is the number of IP
Interfaces that are "enabled". This implies that 2 IP Interfaces are not
in the state the user would expect them to be in.
- Suggestion: remove the Wifi network & strength from this summary panel
(will be present in the administration gui, e.g. the system tray.
3.0 Environment Panel:
- [ ] Steff -Terminology: - feedback on "Auto Activation Options"
button text. One suggestion brainstormed is "Environment Selection
Policy". Sounds good to me, but was a little concerned with length
(since it'll be a button label) and use of "Policy"
- [ ] Ann - Change all instances of "Standalone" to "No Network"
3.3 Auto Activation Options Dialog
- Need to explain or show *somewhere* what the default cases are, e.g.
Automatic is the default environment if none of the rules match
- [ ] Steff Terminology - "ruleset"
3.3.2 Environment Rules Dialog
- Suggestion: Think about being able to include more complex AND / OR
capability. (for e.g. (A AND B) or C ) Not clear if this is required for
round 1.
- Add "Wireless" in front of "Network Name" and "BSSID" to make sure
folks get it
- Do not remove some of the constraints such as Network Name and BSSID
even if the wireless NIC does not exist there .. yet
4.0 Settings Tab
- Add a tunnel example to the list
- [ ] Steff - Naming of Types - would be good to agree on abstraction
layer, e.g. Ethernet & WiFi, Wired & Wireless, etc
- [ ] Ann - in spec rename TOC to Settings instead of Configuration
4.3.2 New Link Aggregation
- Terminology suggestion: Perhaps change "Advanced to "LACP Policy"
(concern over if this is still to tempting for novices to try to stumble
here)
4.4.2.1 Edit Wireless (General)
- Suggestion: Make the amount of verbiage/type of verbiage consistent.
This may have too many instructions
4.4.2.2 Edit Wireless (IP)
- Was discussed to assign IP Address per network, but that was decided
against (complexity, and can't quite remember the other reason)
- [ ] Ann - Add the Device textfield to the "Edit Wireless" dialog
- Suggestion: add some properties that can be configured under some
Advanced notion. For Wireless - Speed, For "Wired" Speed, Duplex, &
Jumbo Packet
4.7 IPv* Dialog
- [ ] Renee - get back to me on how to deal with "Router" field on the
IPv4 Single IP Addr
- [ ] Ann - On Multiple IP Addr - Add a column for logical name (do not
reflect all the logical names in the main listing on the "Settings" tab
- [ ] Ann - Change configure options for IPv6 to
1. Automatically
2. Automatically + Static (meaning if cannot find IP addr
automatically, try static?)
3. Statically
4. None
