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I'm just responding politely, in case people have got the completely wrong impression of me from my other posts
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AitchNetworking - Responding Barry's questions
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Are there check marks available for this kind of menu ?
Is there a widget called 'combobox_with_checks' or something ?
thx in advance,
Urban
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<menubar>
<menu>
<menuitem stock=\"$PROFILE\">
<action></action>
</menuitem>
<label></label>
</menu>
</menubar>thx in advance,
Urban
Network Ease of use
May I make a couple of points... if you want to find ease of use.. get your significant other, or a teen or a purely Win user to try to hook up to your wifi network.
Assuming your hardware is detected correctly the sequence of events in the wizard can be confusing the first time you encounter it. If you have never hooked up a wifi...you are lost.... in fact let us go back one step...
I know absolutely nothing about a network... all I know is I want to get to the net... SO....I first hit the browser button. Guess what I simply get a not found... now what????? Frankly took me a long time to realize this was actually the second step in the process... Especially since my first experience with wif.. the system had automatically located the network and hooked up automatically.
Ok... somehow you found out you need to set up your network. I think the single button connect is very good... if you have a basic knowledge of what kind of hardware you have.. you or with some help, will find the correct button to press for your hardware.
OK the wizard itself...
Let us say we are going to use Internet by Network or Wireless Lan button.
Assume your hardware has been detected correctly... YOU see the box with the different networks.. you click one on... nothing happens... you selected the network.. why is nothing happening... OH THERE are buttons below corresponding to the networks... HUMMMMMM....
"clicking the lan in the top box only highlights the line.. nothing happens"
We hit the wireless0 button:
Next screen; AH a button that says wireless... click this on..
Next screen has 12 buttons.. which one do I want? I don't have a profile... I don't know what a profile is....
Finally by accident or by hitting all the buttons I find the SCAN button...
Ah.. now I see networks..... it finds your network.. your say use this network... click "use this profile".. it comes back to you.. .and you wait ... or go back to the desktop.. and click your browser again.. HUMMMM same not found page.... GO BACK to wizard... what is "TEST Interface... and what does it do???" And of course what is Auto DHCP all about??? I clicked on my wireless button, told it the correct router... what is this DHCP??? OK.... a bit of comic relief.. but the point is if this is your first experience with a network.. it is all very mysterious... The steps are not obvious at all.
Possibly putting big 1,2,3.... next to the correct buttons would help. Or different sequences for different cases?
One other point, if you use the load your own module option, as the auto does not find what you need... why is the LOAD button at the top of the window?.. You normally expect the load or install to be at the bottom of the page... The NEXT thing to do after selecting the desired module.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread.. networking is not a plug and play, so anything that can be done to make it easy and fool proof will benefit us all. Users do not read and they do want to go to the command line.
Greg
Assuming your hardware is detected correctly the sequence of events in the wizard can be confusing the first time you encounter it. If you have never hooked up a wifi...you are lost.... in fact let us go back one step...
I know absolutely nothing about a network... all I know is I want to get to the net... SO....I first hit the browser button. Guess what I simply get a not found... now what????? Frankly took me a long time to realize this was actually the second step in the process... Especially since my first experience with wif.. the system had automatically located the network and hooked up automatically.
Ok... somehow you found out you need to set up your network. I think the single button connect is very good... if you have a basic knowledge of what kind of hardware you have.. you or with some help, will find the correct button to press for your hardware.
OK the wizard itself...
Let us say we are going to use Internet by Network or Wireless Lan button.
Assume your hardware has been detected correctly... YOU see the box with the different networks.. you click one on... nothing happens... you selected the network.. why is nothing happening... OH THERE are buttons below corresponding to the networks... HUMMMMMM....
"clicking the lan in the top box only highlights the line.. nothing happens"
We hit the wireless0 button:
Next screen; AH a button that says wireless... click this on..
Next screen has 12 buttons.. which one do I want? I don't have a profile... I don't know what a profile is....
Finally by accident or by hitting all the buttons I find the SCAN button...
Ah.. now I see networks..... it finds your network.. your say use this network... click "use this profile".. it comes back to you.. .and you wait ... or go back to the desktop.. and click your browser again.. HUMMMM same not found page.... GO BACK to wizard... what is "TEST Interface... and what does it do???" And of course what is Auto DHCP all about??? I clicked on my wireless button, told it the correct router... what is this DHCP??? OK.... a bit of comic relief.. but the point is if this is your first experience with a network.. it is all very mysterious... The steps are not obvious at all.
Possibly putting big 1,2,3.... next to the correct buttons would help. Or different sequences for different cases?
One other point, if you use the load your own module option, as the auto does not find what you need... why is the LOAD button at the top of the window?.. You normally expect the load or install to be at the bottom of the page... The NEXT thing to do after selecting the desired module.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread.. networking is not a plug and play, so anything that can be done to make it easy and fool proof will benefit us all. Users do not read and they do want to go to the command line.
Greg