Re: [Tails-dev] What do we miss to replace Vidalia [was: Get…

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Author: Alan
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] What do we miss to replace Vidalia [was: Getting rid of Vidalia]
Hi!

> I've tried it, and it looks great, congrats!
>

Thanks!

> A few UI remarks:
>
> * I like it very much :)
>
> * I'm not sure about the subtitle in the title bar, that reads
> "Display Tor circuits and streams": maybe drop "Display"? Anyway,
> I'll let sajolida nitpick on such things :)
>
> * Displaying circuits without any separator but a space between nodes
> is hard to read for me. Vidalia uses comma+space as a separator, and
> it's easier for me to read it this way.
>

Ok.

> * The "Name" header for the circuits list feels wrong. How about
> "Path" instead?
>

Ok.

> * I suspect the circuit status strings should be capitalized.
>

You mean: "Capitalized"? If yes: ok.

> * When I disconnect from the network and then reconnect, Tor Monitor
> tells me it's going to try to reconnect to Tor, but clicking on the
> OK button doesn't trigger any visible action and the notification
> stays in place. Buggy thread/parallelism handling?
>

The info bar is just a notification. The only action triggered by "Ok"
is to hide the notification.

> * When I disconnect from the network and then reconnect, Tor Monitor
> tells me it's going to try to reconnect to Tor, but it still lists
> a few circuits from the previous Tor session. Maybe the list should
> be emptied in such a case?
>

You mean: emptied as soon as the connection to the Tor deamon breaks?
That makes sense.

> * Tor Monitor needs an icon to display in the task bar instead of the
> default one :)
>

That should be solved if installed with --prefix=/usr, but I still need
to work on the setup script.

> Great job.
>

Thanks!