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• Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/xdeltas

• Created: Date(2006-06-19T11:07:08Z) by KrishnaSankar

• Contributors: KrishnaSankar

• Packages affected:

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 Annoyances web page ? Also get wireless annoyances from Ubuntu forums
• Need to find out what tasks are difficult and why
• The network manager team is already looking into many things.
  • sync with them
  • We will fold back the work we do for the wireless interface to them

Questions after the Summit discussion [June 20,2006 5:00 AM]

• It is not as if something is drastically wrong with the wireless.
• In the beginning I thought we could have a readically simple, yet effective and task oriented GUI titled "My Wireless Neighbourhood" or something like that, independent of the Networkmanager. But after the summit discussions, looks like we need some tweaking of the wireless interfaces of the network manager.

• The network manager has some relevant plans for their NM0.7 [http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerToDo]

• So where does it leave us ? Should we aim for a work item on the Network Manager as a whole than just wireless? (I think this is what Matt has in mind, probably)
• Should we wait for the network manager than going on our own on ? Their mailing list is hosed, only the last 4 days are visible now. So I couldn't trace any discussions)

P.S: It is 4:00 AM and I couldn't sleep, still in PST ;o( Couldn't stop thinking how we should proceed.

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