Re: Simplifying the Connections Editor

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:28 +0100, Fanen Ahua wrote:
> Someone called me up today asking me how to configure a manual IP
> address in Ubuntu 8.10. 
> 
> He was most likely intimidated by the naming of the tabs in the
> connection editor dialog.
> 
> Won't it be better to make the "IPv4 Settings" tab the first thing, and
> rename it to something more familiar, "Settings" perhaps? 
> 
> This makes sense because nearly everytime I use the dialog, I only
> change the connection name, and input the IP details, and the only tab I
> use is the "IPv4 Setings" tab, where i choose the manual method, and
> input the DNS servers.

So when we add the IPv6 tab, then what? :)

dan