Re: [Usability]Proxy capplet

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:45, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> Hi Jorn,
> 
> I have a few minor HIG- and GDSG-related suggestions for your mockups:

I forgot to save the glade file for the mockups so I can't really update
them just now .. but will take them in mind when implementing the stuff.

Thanks!
Jorn

> 
> http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/capplet.png
> 
> s/HTTP Proxy/HTTP proxy
> s/SSL Proxy/SSL proxy
> s/FTP Proxy/FTP proxy
> s/Socks Host/Socks host
> 
> All of these to comply with HIG capitalization guidelines, Chapter 8, 
> Table 8.3.
> 	
> http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/details.png
> 
> s/Port Number/Port number
> s/User Name/Username
> 
> The first of these is to comply with HIG capitalization guidelines. The 
> Recommended Terminology section of the Style Guide suggests spelling 
> username as one word.
> 
> Also, would it be possible to put "proxy.foohost.com Details" in the 
> window titlebar rather than in the dialog?
> 
> Eugene
> 
> 
> "Jorn Baayen" <jorn nl linux org> wrote:
> >Date: 22 Oct 2002 21:02:53 +0200
> >Hi,
> >
> >The current proxy capplet is rather incomplete, since it only does HTTP
> >proxy. It would be good if it could be extended to handle FTP and SSL
> >proxies, socks host, and autoconfiguration URL as well. We need those to
> >support proxying in Galeon properly, and gnome-vfs/nautilus should
> >surely use them as well.  I'm willing to do the code, and have already
> >made some UI mockups:
> >
> >http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/capplet.png
> >http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/details.png
> >
> >There are some problems though: 
> >- User/password. These may be different for each server, so we can't
> >have a global u/p setting. 99% of the proxy users prolly have these the
> >same though, but I think that for system configuration we'd better
> >support everything. In my mockups I have moved this to a details dialog,
> >since we can't really fit two entries extra per server into the dialog.
> >- GConf keys. Right now, the proxy prefs reside in
> >/system/http_proxy/host etc. Where do we keep the new keys?
> >/system/ftp_proxy/host? That would bloat the /system dir too much IMHO.
> >On the other hand, /system/http_proxy/ftp_host would be sucky too. I
> >think the best would be to have something like /system/proxy/http/host,
> >/system/proxy/ftp/host, etc, but this would break backward
> >compatibility.
> >
> >It would be really cool if this could be done before the 2.2 UI freeze,
> >so that we can remove the proxy prefs from Galeon.
> >
> >Comments? Suggestions?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Jorn
> >
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