On Saturday 14 June 2008 12:36:24 Fabrice Facorat wrote:
> 2008/6/10 Luis Menina <liberforce@(protected)>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Per Frederic Crozat request (who was afraid those remarks would otherwise
> > come too late for 2009.0), I give you the link to a the draft of a
> > document I've started. The object of this document is to give some hints
> > of improvement in the ergonomy of the drakxtools.
> > http://www.freeside.fr/guides/drakxtools/drakxtools.en.html
> >
> > It's still on the very beginning, but I'll try to add more stuff on a
> > regular basis. I was informed a week ago that there's a french initiative
> > about the same topic, of which I'm not a member ATM:
> > http://www.mandrivafr.org/trac/ergonomie/
> >
> > Note that I'm trying to have a list of usability improvements, but
> > without adding new features at the same time. That's because the
> > drakxtools need consistency first and I know there's not enough manpower
> > to add new features and do basic UI redesign all at once.
> >
> > Once this document will have reached the critical mass, my plan is to
> > shift it to the official wiki, to make contributions easier.
>
> quick remarks :
>
> + drakauth :
> IMHO the big text entry should be kept, and this kind of text entry is
> missing in fact in most Mandriva tools, because theses entries allow
> to explain what to do, instead of clicking on the help button which
> may need to install the drakxtools doc packages
> Indeed, the radio buttons should be replaced by combo box

I think the first issue here is that drakauth (AFAIK not touched in last ~3
years) needs to be re-worked functionally, then the UI changes can come.

There are some enhancement bugs filed on drakauth for the following (IIRC):
-Unix Kerberos+LDAP setup (like SFU without nss_ldap attribute mapping)
-Offline support (nss_updatedb+nss_db/pam_ccreds for Kerberos/LDAP/NIS,
winbind caching for Winbind)
-Biometrics support

In theory it is possible to combine these options, mean neither a drop-down
box nor a radio button set are viable .... and there may be more aspects to
consider.

If tooltips are possible on the existing radio buttons, the text in the
current text box should be moved there. Else, the desired functionality
should be spec'ed before UI changes are proposed.

(Also, drakauth should be able to some detection ... but that could be a bit
trick ... and there are still some kerberos-related issues to fix in the
winbind option).

Regards,
Buchan