How to visualize wrong or missing configuration in NM connection editor
Jan Grulich <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:05:18 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.usability |
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| Organization | Red Hat Czech |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hey, I would like to ask/discuss what do you think would be a good way how to visualize wrong or missing configuration in NM connection editor, because there are quite many fields you can set and sometimes users may be wondering why they cannot hit the apply button. Example 1 - missing password in wifi configuration: https://jgrulich.fedorapeople.org/wifi_tab_missing_password.png Example 2 - missing IP address in ipv4 configuration: https://jgrulich.fedorapeople.org/ipv4_tab_missing_address.png But there are many cases where this would be needed and some of them may not be that obvious like missing password. One solution could be to use what nm-connection-editor uses for this. They highlight the border of the missing/wrong field, see picture below: https://jgrulich.fedorapeople.org/nm_connection_editor.png I would personally go for this, but there is no other application using/ requiring something like this, at least none I would be aware of so I'm not sure if this will comply with you and our guidelines and I would like to also hear other opinions. Thank you Regards, Jan -- Jan Grulich, Software Engineer, Desktop Team Red Hat