intrigeri: > sajolida wrote (10 Mar 2015 14:40:44 GMT) : >> 1. Clicking on the green onion opens a popup (like for Florence) with >> the list of circuits. That would be the most integrated solution but >> depends on the information in that popup to be dense enough. On your >> current screenshot for example, I'm not sure we should keep built but >> unused circuits. We might only list currently used circuits. I'm not >> sure either whether the detail of the relay need to be that complete. > > IMO this one requires too much initial time investment, for something > that a) exceeds what's needed to replace Vidalia without losing > important features; and b) might not be what we want on the long > run -- I mean, the UI may be what we want in the end, but to implement > it, we need to first make technical decisions about the separation of > concerns between the underlying programs, and it seems clear to me > that any choice we could make right now has great chances to be wrong > once #7438 is resolved, and then quite some work will have to be > re-done.
Ok. >> 2. Clicking on the green onion opens Tor Monitor is a window. > > Seems trivial to implement. > >> 3. Clicking on the green onion opens a menu, and clicking on an item >> from that menu open Tor Monitor in a window. > > Seems trivial to implement as well. > >> That's your solution if I understand correctly. > > I said I would be fine with it. I also said I agreed with "clicking > the onion icon directly starts Tor Monitor", aka. the solution you > call #2, so that's not "my" solution :) > >> But I'm not sure to understand what the menu brings, as "Tor is >> ready" is already the message provide by the onion being green. > > I see two potential reasons why #3 might be better than #2: > > * a menu leaves us room to add stuff there later if we need to, > without changing behaviour users have previously been trained to > > * interface consistency => behaviour that's more expected by users: > all icons in GNOME Shell's top bar open a menu, and don't directly > trigger any action... except some we've hackishly added there > ourselves with the topIcons extension (Florence, Pidgin) > > Now, indeed #2 is faster to interact with. I'm personally > undecided wrt. which one of these two is the best. Neither am I :) -- sajolida _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
