FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: Network preflet, the future?

["Niels Reedijk" <n.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Niels Reedijk wrote:
> > I've been playing with the new network preflet,
> 
> Oh, so am I! ;-)
> Okay, maybe I should have told you guys... :-\

No, you shouldn't. I've said I would look at it somewhere this summer,
and 
it is only natural that after a few months of inactivity, the job is
free
again.

> Here some screenshots:
>
http://philippe.houdoin.free.fr/phil/beos/openbeos/network_kit/network_g
ui
> -
> 01.png
>
http://philippe.houdoin.free.fr/phil/beos/openbeos/network_kit/network_g
ui
> -
> 02.png
>
http://philippe.houdoin.free.fr/phil/beos/openbeos/network_kit/network_g
ui
> -
> 03.png
> 
> I discuss them with Axel last monday, BTW.

The reason I put the buttons to manage the profiles on a separate tab,
is
because I like to preserve some screen estate. (It's not much anyway), I
also think it doesn't have any significance to create and edit profiles
on
every settings page. But that's just my opinion.

> > However, while I was working on this,
> > I realised
> > not only the front end needs to be designed, but also the back end.
> 
> Yep. Only the BIND part of libnet.so require, use and support external
> settings
> files (/etc/protocols, /etc/services and co...).
> The current stack should be configure via ifconfig tool.

It would be a small effort to change the bind to use the
driver_settings.

> We have alreayd discuss that previously, looks from this thread post:
>
http://www.freelists.org/archives/openbeosnetteam/07-2003/msg00083.html

Driver settings it is then. I was just going through the options
 
> > to have its own status message (if needed, so the
> > ethernet module
> > can add status messages for all the interfaces it controls). A
standard
> > add-in, called
> > the common_settings add-in will be added for controlling the main
> > stack, there'll
> > also be an ethernet add-in, and a lovely ppp add-in.
> 
> A stack status/overview add-on may offer the same feature without the
need
> to
> tweak the preflet to know about it. Not all preflet add-on need to
allow
> stack
> being setup by user. Why not a "About OBOS Network Kit team" add-on,
aka
> credit
> add-on for example!?
> ;-)

True, but I was actually trying to replicate the 'status' list found in
the MacOS X preflet. The best way to replicate this, is by having the
main app have a method for add-ins to post status messages.

Niels