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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | No write progress in dns and routing standalone modules | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 | Reporter: | Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova> |
| Component: | YaST2 | Assignee: | Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Jiri Srain <jsrain> |
| Severity: | Minor | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | Alpha 2plus | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Attachments: | Possibility of avoiding pop-up in remote admin module | ||
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Description
Katarina Machalkova
2007-03-29 12:45:16 UTC
In order to have a consistent YaST it is important that all modules behave in the same way. Most of them present an initializing page and a "writing the configuration" page when the user changes something. Some modules (e.g. Hostnames, Proxy, Remote Administration, DNS, Routing) don't behave in that way. So to increase consistency and to meet user expectations I would strongly recommend to add a "writing the configuration" page when the configuration is written and not to leave the user with a temporally frozen module. DNS part is done :-) Martin, do you think it makes sense to add a progress dialog even if it has a single step? That is the case of Hostnames and Proxy modules. For the sake of consistency: yes :-) BTW: Can we get rid of that "configuration saved" pop-up? It doesn't provide any useful information to the user and IMHO its the only "configuration saved" pop-up in the whole YaST. The only kind of information the user gets is: * there are apps using at once * there are apps using after a while * there are apps not using it at all. This information is definitly completely useless. Well, we can remove it, but what about Remote administration module? - it finishes writing the configuration with a popup as well, telling user to restart display manager so that settings can take effect. Shall I remove this popup, too? But how to notify user about the fact that he/she need to do something extra (relogin, restart dm) to apply the settings? I think putting this information into the help text is not a good idea, since users usually read the help text only if nothing else helps ;-) Please remove the pop-up in the "Remote Admininstration Module" as well. I fully agree with you, that putting the information into the help text is not a good idea (personally I think that putting it into the help text as it is now would mean the same as dropping this information at all :-)). What about putting the information about any extra actions which are required by the user to the end of the main dialog? Something like: ------------------------------- <bold>Note:</bold> Any changes will take effect after the next login or after restart of the display manager. I see. I'm just not sure which 'end of the main dialog' do you mean. Is it the help text to the left of write progress (saving configuration) dialog? Created attachment 134326 [details]
Possibility of avoiding pop-up in remote admin module
I did some further investigation into this, as me and Miso did not quite like the possibility of moving information from popup to the label (frankly, it did not look as well as we expected). According to bug #55458, the popup in remote administration module was originally there because calling 'rcxdm reload' killed the running X session and that's why display manager needed to be restarted manually. It no longer does 'rcxdm reload' works well for kdm and xdm. Unfortunately, not for gdm, but for gdm it is enough to run appropriate SuSEconfig module to enable/disable remote administration. Conclusion: we can drop the popup completely, without any further changes to UI. Finally fixed (for the next build - y2-network 2.15.30) |