On 04/27/2010 08:54 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
Hi,olpc has decided to present ad-hoc networks like they did with mesh networks: three icons in the neighborhood view representing ad-hoc networks with the channels 1, 6, 11. This should preserve the workflow previously introduced and ease the use of ad-hoc networks. More details for the reasoning can be found in [1]. I think this is a great idea and should maybe be adopted by the upstream development, too. So here is what we found out so far: - 3 icons in the neighborhood view representing the 3 channels - we would need three different icons allowing to differentiate the different channels (an interesting idea is here [3]) - those icons should show the status like the Access Point icons does (connected/unconnected) - if someone clicks on one of the icons he joins a possible existing networks or creates a new network - a badge could indicate if a network is already 'active' created by someone else - naming: so far we decided to not name the networks mesh networks to avoid confusion, some voted for 'local network' some for 'our network', others, votes? - the option to create adhoc networks should be removed from the frame device to avoid confusion What do people think about that? Can the design team help to make this happen? Regards, Simon [1] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-December/026831.html [2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9845 [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20100422/d9d33027/attachment-0001.png http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/028315.html
As a follow up I put on my designers hat and created the icons myself (based on the maya numerals), screenshot attached.
What is missing is a badge to indicate if the network is active (someone has created the adhoc network already). Any good ideas how that badge could look like?
Naming: Any ideas, comments about the naming of the networks? 'Local network or our network, other ideas?
Thanks, Simon
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