[ros-dev] Network connection config dialog prototype

[David Johnson]

I would love to see a new UI for ReactOS. I hate the Win95 / NT look.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:29:04 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde
<th.v.d.gronde at hccnet.nl> wrote:
> Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:
>  > Only thing is, I'm not sure if the tree-view is necessary - how many
>  > users visit the network config dialogs more than once in a blue moon
>  > to adjust something? I only ever delve in there if I'm testing a
>  > router for someone and have to change my subnet.
> 
> I agree, but would it hurt them? I feel Windows is just a bit too much
> like a maze in this case.
> 
>  > Also, I think the protocol-specific dialogs are actually in separate
>  > modules, and appear as dialogs. I could be wrong. But this would mean
>  > it'd not be possible to do as you describe :(
> 
> In some cases standard dialogs appear to be used along with information
> in the registry that defines what parameters there are, their types and
> values (in particular the RealTek driver I use seems to do this). This
> scheme seems to not very complex than the previous one and should lend
> itself very well to displaying in custom dialogs.
> I don't know how common this is though and whether it's only for nic's
> or also protocols for example.
> 
> For displaying custom property sheets there appears to be an INetCfg
> interface on (recent versions of?) Windows, but I can't say I fully
> understand the details of what this and would not allow you to do (what
> exactly qualifies as a "network component" for example). And I have no
> idea at all whether something like this is supported by ReactOS.
> 
>  > But as a compromise - if necessary - maybe it'd be an idea to copy the
>  > Firefox style of "preferences" dialog, with icons where the tree-view
>  > is, but have each icon represent a different connection...
> 
> If only one level is feasible this might indeed not be such a bad idea
> (although it might get a little clumsy if it contained more than a few
> entries).
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