[desktop-discuss] Network Auto-Magic UI Preview (0.1)

[Darren Kenny]

[ Already sent to nwam-discuss, but makes sense to send here too]

In recent times we've been working on a UI for Network Auto-Magic (NWAM) Phase 1.

As part of NWAM Phase 1, there is the introduction of a UI to manage the NWAM
configuration. At the moment NWAM Phase 1 itself isn't ready for general use,
but in the meantime, we've been trying to still make progress on the UI front
using stubs (as opposed to the new APIs that NWAM will provide), and focus on
the UI elements as outlined in the current UI Spec (1.4).

We think that we've mad some good progress here, but as you can guess, there is
still quite a way to go - but we would love to hear your feedback with what
we've done so far.

So down to business, you can download a tarball with both SPARC and x86 binaries
in it at:
 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/UIDesign/Phase1/nwamui_preview_2007_08_03.tgz

You will need to be running a system with at least GNOME 2.18 in it, which
should be the case from Solaris Nevada build 67 onwards. If in doubt, you can
check this by running:

    /usr/bin/gnome-about --version

To run the demo (preview?) we should start by extracting the tarball as follows:

    gzip -cd nwamui_preview_2007_08_03.tgz | tar xvf -

This will create a directory called nwamui_preview_2007_08_03, so you need to
then change directory into that, and run the run_demo.sh script as follows:

    cd ./nwamui_preview_2007_08_03
    ./run_demo.sh

This should present you with a new "globe" entry in the notification tray on
your GNOME Panel, try right-clicking on it to get a menu, as in the attached image.

Or simply clicking on it will launch the "Network Preferences". You can edit the
wider network configuration by selecting the "Network Preferences" from the
pop-up menu.

Please take some time to try things out, but also please remember that this is
all done using stubs, so nothing is saved, and there will be inconsistency
between the panel presence and the preferences dialogs, not to mention that
there are quite likely  bugs in there...

Enjoy ;)

Thanks,

Darren.


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