WirelessClient

Revision 5 as of 2006-06-19 18:33:54

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Summary

Rationale

Use cases

Scope

Design

Implementation

Code

KrishnaSankar and SorenHansen

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

  • Wireless usability from usability studies
  • Collect wireless gripes
  • What is good about MAC wireless ?
  • UI Expert to mock up interface
  • Feature set
  • Dev approach
  • Interface points with other projects
  • What do we need immediately ?
  • What are nice to have ?

Discussion Notes (June 19, 16.00)

  • The capability really comes from the hardware/drivers. But this should be recognized displayed - for example "The network card/driver does not support the function xxxxxx"
  • We have all the features in the network manager. they need a little tweaking. (MattZ also mentioned the same in the blackboard discussion)
    • Context driven fields - For example the WPA screen has all the fields, but actually only a few are applicable to that particular context
    • System-wide credentials for Network manager
    • None of the panels contain tool tips or help messages

POA (Plan of Action)

  • We will redesign the Wireless GUI
  • Ellen will contribute to design a usable UI
  • The team to abstract best practice wireless interface that users have liked in other OSs
  • The team to get feedback on time stamped vs. priority based scheme
  • The team will go thru the Network wireless panels and identify what fields are required in each context
  • Add very helpful tooltips and help messages for each field
  • Wireless Anoyances web page
  • The network manager team is already looking into many things.
    • sync with them
    • Most probably we will fold back the wireless interface to them

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