GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 643119
Some ideas for the panel Mockup
Last modified: 2013-01-30 19:19:13 UTC
Created attachment 181749 [details] Network Panel Mockup (PNG) This is note a completly mockup but just some ideas for the Network panel of Control Center. It's added to the previous mockup: http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Network?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=NetworkSettings.svg Note: For mostly users, they go to Network panel for manage connections and not devices, so I have choose a connection centric approach. And with this, we have the same approach that NM-Applet.
Created attachment 181750 [details] Network Panel Mockup (Inkscape SVG)
We have an actual panel now, and it is looking a bit different from that. Not sure what to do with these ideas now...
You can implement it for 3.2: - When you move often with your laptop, you have much connection saved, so the auto-collapse idea is really practical. - The "connections" approach is more intuitive than the "devices" approach. When user come to this panel, it's for manage connections. - The options integration permit to don't continue to use only nm-connection-editor to manage low level options.
I don't see us switch from device-centric to connection-centric. Options will be integrated over time.
I think a bigger problem is the list of saved wireless connections -- I must have over 50 on this machine alone. We are thinking of putting some connections in the menu in the left hand panel (but not wired) but we're stalled on getting the "default" connection for a device, so we can show one device with a connection and one-sub-device with a connection.
The design got updated again in GNOME 3.6. See bug 691285. If you have specific problems with the new design, please file separate bugs.
Make that GNOME 3.8, sorry.