Re: How to visualize wrong or missing configuration in NM connection editor

El dimarts, 11 d’abril de 2017, a les 8:05:18 CEST, Jan Grulich va escriure:
> 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

That or changing the field background to red (we do that on Okular for example 
when you search for something that doesn't exist)

Also there's the more "old-school" method of showing a dialog after you press 
"ok".

> 
> 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.

I guess it's probably because we don't have many applications that actually 
*require* you to make sure a field is filled?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Thank you
> 
> Regards,
> Jan