GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 763254
Remote connection setup UI
Last modified: 2017-05-23 12:36:38 UTC
Typing a URL does not quite cut if for setting up a remote connection. There should be a dialog or wizard for creating new VNC (and RDP, etc) connections.
This needs design input, obviously.
Created attachment 323310 [details] remmina rdp dialog
Created attachment 323311 [details] remmina rdp dialog 2
Created attachment 323312 [details] remmina rdp dialog 3
for inspiration, here is what remmina shows when you want to create a new rdp connection.
there is no more connection setup dialog when connecting to server in nautilus, if I am not mistaken, but Boxes need one?
Yes, I think so. I don't see what nautilus has to do with that.
(In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #7) > Yes, I think so. I don't see what nautilus has to do with that. It strike as being a similar purpose ui: enter protocol, (username, password), host, port ...
I suggest we solve the protocol prefix discoverability the same way we did for Nautilus, with a popover legend in the entry. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/boxes/wires/newbox-remote-connections.png
I would consider this to be solved since the current user has its own page for "Enter URL" -> which contains the label "Enter an address for the box you want to add. Addresses can be of installation images, SPICE and VNC servers, or oVirt or Libvirt brokers." and "Examples: http://download.com/image.iso, spice://somehost:5051, ovirt://host/path". Feel free to reopen if that's not the case.