Re: [Usability] end-user whines about 2.10

[Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>]

Just to butt my head into this, I also found the new network applet to
be a regression. I understand why it is good to standardize on one,
but the little diamonds are not the greatest. Almost every other meter
in software uses simply boxes, and to me that is much clearer, as the
screenshot shows.

Corey


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:07:59 +0100, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 22:14, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> >   o the wireless applet seems to have changed to some sort of
> >     useless flashing pixmap of a screen.  where did the signal
> >     strength meter, an ever so useful device, go?
> 
> The signal strength indicator is now only available via that 'useless
> flashing pixmap' applet.  (Shipping multiple applets to give information
> about the same network device was rather a wasted duplication of
> effort.)
> 
> >     the a purple icon next to the flashing monitors in the
> >     network monitor signal strength is not really readable
> 
> Indeed, the signal strength icons aren't being themed to match your
> apparently very green theme :)  The icons *are* actually themable though
> IIRC, I just don't think any themes actually bother yet.  You could
> create your own themed icons if it's a problem, or hassle your theme's
> author to fix it.
> 
> >     <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/signal.jpg> where i can not see
> >     how it tells me the strength, according to whoppens when i
> >     click it, is 66%.
> 
> Well, from the screenshot it seems to be showing three bars out of a
> possible four, which suggests 'reasonably strong' to me.  It's not more
> precise than that because there are few situations where most users need
> more than a rough indication, and for those situations, there's the
> properties dialog.  The exact strength was also supposed to be shown in
> the applet's tooltip (according to the original UI spec), but I guess
> Mark never got around to that :)
> 
> >     and how to get rid of those silly monitors?  also, the
> >     preferences/configure option seems not to work, "The
> >     interface does not exist," when indeed ath0 does and shows on
> >     those lovely flashing monitors.
> 
> Currently not a preference, but again they are themable so I suppose you
> could just replace them with blank icons in your theme if you never want
> to see them.  You should file an enhancement request in bugzilla to make
> this a preference, I guess.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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