Re: [ros-dev] Network connection config dialog prototype

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

We are cloning Windows... right?

I argee about trying to make things better.

IMO the only thing I think could be infinitely improved is the top box - 
the "connect using" box. What's the point in having an edit box there? A 
text label would do fine, surely?

I had toyed with having the protocol descriptions as tooltips, or have a 
"description" button to the right to pop up information about a protocol....

Can you come up with a design?


Robert Köpferl wrote:

>   It looks too much of being copied.
>  I don't like the idea of cloning all concepts of M$ (some are good,
>  other can definitively be made better while staying compatible).
>
>  In my opinion the dialog should be reduced to what actually is possible.
>  People dislike grayed checkboxes. It should be enhanced with time
>
>  Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:
>
> >   Following some discussion with Art Yerkes via
> > email, I've been toying 
> >  around with a resource editor and shifted XP's network connection 
> >  configuration dialog around:
> >
> >  www.furrybeans.co.uk/stuff/netdlg.jpg
> >
> >  Note that this will not be the final dialog, nor will that exact one 
> >  be used - I'm using a resource editor just so I don't have to 
> >  painstakingly recreate each control just to see what it looks like. 
> >  It's just convenient for laying out a prototype.
> >
> >  Ignore the image at the top left - that was there already.
> >
> >  Compare with XP or 2000's dialog and let me know what improvements 
> >  you can think of.
> >
> >  -Andrew
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