intrigeri:
> sajolida wrote (10 Mar 2015 14:40:44 GMT) :
>> 1. Clicking on the green onion opens a popup (like for Florence) with
>> the list of circuits. That would be the most integrated solution but
>> depends on the information in that popup to be dense enough. On your
>> current screenshot for example, I'm not sure we should keep built but
>> unused circuits. We might only list currently used circuits. I'm not
>> sure either whether the detail of the relay need to be that complete.
>
> IMO this one requires too much initial time investment, for something
> that a) exceeds what's needed to replace Vidalia without losing
> important features; and b) might not be what we want on the long
> run -- I mean, the UI may be what we want in the end, but to implement
> it, we need to first make technical decisions about the separation of
> concerns between the underlying programs, and it seems clear to me
> that any choice we could make right now has great chances to be wrong
> once #7438 is resolved, and then quite some work will have to be
> re-done.
Ok.
>> 2. Clicking on the green onion opens Tor Monitor is a window.
>
> Seems trivial to implement.
>
>> 3. Clicking on the green onion opens a menu, and clicking on an item
>> from that menu open Tor Monitor in a window.
>
> Seems trivial to implement as well.
>
>> That's your solution if I understand correctly.
>
> I said I would be fine with it. I also said I agreed with "clicking
> the onion icon directly starts Tor Monitor", aka. the solution you
> call #2, so that's not "my" solution :)
>
>> But I'm not sure to understand what the menu brings, as "Tor is
>> ready" is already the message provide by the onion being green.
>
> I see two potential reasons why #3 might be better than #2:
>
> * a menu leaves us room to add stuff there later if we need to,
> without changing behaviour users have previously been trained to
>
> * interface consistency => behaviour that's more expected by users:
> all icons in GNOME Shell's top bar open a menu, and don't directly
> trigger any action... except some we've hackishly added there
> ourselves with the topIcons extension (Florence, Pidgin)
>
> Now, indeed #2 is faster to interact with. I'm personally
> undecided wrt. which one of these two is the best.
Neither am I :)
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sajolida
