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

[Darren Kenny]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the feedback...

Jeff Cai wrote:
> Just now I tried it and add some comments here:
> 
> 1. Nice features and  complete functionalities for network
> configuration : multiple network cards configuration, proxy setting,
> connection status monitor, network environment setting and switching
> automatically
> 
> 2. First I ran it on vermillion 71 (gnome 2.19), and after starting
> run_demo.sh, no icon in the notification tray. But it works on nevada
> 69.

Interesting, it ran fine on verm_70 for me, and GNOME 2.18..

> 
> 3. In the network configuration, I don't know where i should configure
> dns and gateway. Lin said that maybe it is a problem of glade files.

No, interestingly this is not a problem with the GLADE files - it's intentional.
There specific elements - Routing and DNS are something that will be addressed
by other projects - for example DNS is a naming service, as is NIS/LDAP and this
is being addressed as part of the project Duckwater:

   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/duckwater/

Right now we've no idea what they will/will not provide so we can't include it
in NWAM yet - if they give us something useful we will try to provide a UI to it.

> 
> 4. How should I use VPN setting? Just press "Start" and "Stop" button to
> enable and disable vpn?

That would be the idea at the moment, yes. To autostart it might not be
desirable by most people - but AFAIK it's possible for these to ultimately be
SMF services too - so if this is the case it's configurable using SMFs own
configuration mechanisms too - we're just not exposing all of this in the UI here.

Thanks,

Darren

> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 08:17 +0100, Darren Kenny wrote:
>> [ 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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