Bug 203764

Summary:	YAST: usability issue in configuration of the network address
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Markus Heller <markus>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Screenshot of dialog box

Description Markus Heller 2006-09-05 22:39:02 UTC

execute dhclient manually (eth0), obtain settings for the name server through dhcp.

In YAST go to "Konfiguration der Netzwerkadresse". You get the message:

"Die Resolver-Konfigurationsdatei (/etc/resolv.conf) wurde vorübergehend von /sbin/dhclient verändert. Sie haben zwei Optionen:

1.) Modifizieren Sie die aktuell (geänderte) Version der Datei
2.) Drücken Sie nun "Übernehmen" und fahren Sie  ... fort.

The problem here ist this: A user who is unsure about all these technical details might not want to modify anything at all. For this reasons, it would be useful to offer a "Abort / Abbrechen" clickfield, so that the user can simply abort without any changes. The way it is now, the user seems to be forced to apply any change whatsoever, even if he didn't want to change anything!

Unsure (novice) users will be very confused.

Comment 1 Thomas Fehr 2006-09-12 14:54:23 UTC

reassigned to maintainer of yast2-network.

Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2006-09-12 15:11:21 UTC

This is not an issue of what buttons to use, it is an issue of providing better explanations about what consequence either course of action has.

IMHO the request to improve this dialog is perfectly valid, but the approach should not be to change the button labels, but to explain better what this is all about.

If it is not already used (I don't recall), we might want to use a RichText widget here and use different styles of highlighting for the concise options (headings) and the explanatory text.

Sigi? Rebecca? Any ideas?

Comment 3 Rebecca Walter 2006-09-15 13:50:21 UTC

I need a screen shot of the English dialog before I can comment effectively.

Comment 4 Forgotten User t-K-SYtr-p 2007-01-28 09:20:47 UTC

Created attachment 115702 [details]
Screenshot of dialog box

English version of screenshot as req'd.

Comment 5 Michal Zugec 2007-01-30 10:20:11 UTC

Rebecca, do you have any enhancemet about this?

Comment 6 Rebecca Walter 2007-01-31 06:47:16 UTC

I agree that we can improve this.  However, we probably should wait a while until projects under development are released.  We can improve this for 10.3.

Comment 7 Michal Zugec 2007-11-21 13:36:04 UTC

This was fixed for 10.3