Re: Simplifying the Connections Editor

2009-02-11 Thread Fanen Ahua
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 13:46 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:28 +0100, Fanen Ahua wrote: > > Someone called me up today asking me how to configure a manual IP > > address in Ubuntu 8.10. > > > > He was most likely intimidated by the naming of the tabs in the > > connection

Re: Simplifying the Connections Editor

2009-02-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 14:18 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Dan Williams wrote: > >On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:28 +0100, Fanen Ahua wrote: > >> Someone called me up today asking me how to configure a manual IP > >> address in Ubuntu 8.10. > >> > >> He was most likely intimida

Re: Simplifying the Connections Editor

2009-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Dan Williams wrote: >On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:28 +0100, Fanen Ahua wrote: >> Someone called me up today asking me how to configure a manual IP >> address in Ubuntu 8.10. >> >> He was most likely intimidated by the naming of the tabs in the >> connection editor dialog. >

Re: Simplifying the Connections Editor

2009-02-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:28 +0100, Fanen Ahua wrote: > Someone called me up today asking me how to configure a manual IP > address in Ubuntu 8.10. > > He was most likely intimidated by the naming of the tabs in the > connection editor dialog. > > Won't it be better to make the "IPv4 Settings" ta

Simplifying the Connections Editor

2009-02-10 Thread Fanen Ahua
Someone called me up today asking me how to configure a manual IP address in Ubuntu 8.10. He was most likely intimidated by the naming of the tabs in the connection editor dialog. Won't it be better to make the "IPv4 Settings" tab the first thing, and rename it to something more familiar, "Setti