UI for DNS

Andrey Batyiev batyiev at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 04:14:58 CEST 2009


Hello Will

I've made some experiments around UI.

First approach: embedding KEditListBox directly into connection settings 
window (http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4219/22700991.png -- > 
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5242/97772319.png, see attached dns.patch  
file). Pressing "More..." button hides DNS row, shows KEditListBox below and 
copies entered DNS value into list.
Main problem is lower entering speed - you need to switch between keyboard and 
mouse to enter data. However it's intuitive enough.

So I decided to make second approach: use popup dialogs with list box 
(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4330/28921440.png --> 
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9923/17386206.png, see attached dns-
alt.patch). Pressing "..." popup window for "intuitive" editing, but there is 
also faster, direct editing, which also has validator.

Comments are welcome.

Thanks,
   Andrey
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