[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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