Hi list, this is another take on network enablement/configuration UI in anaconda. It follows first take: https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2010-October/msg00201.html the point of which was to offer functionality that NetworkManager Applet does in desktop environment - overview of available devices, its status, available APs for wireless, activate/disconnect device controls. It turned out to be quite a lot of UI, so in this patchset I tried to integrate NetworkManager Applet itself. The applet requires a panel (freedesktop.org systray to be precise) to run. I used lightweight fbpanel (gnome-panel would pull a lot of stuff in). Here are examples of what I was able to achieve with the patches: Network enablement for network repository: http://rvykydal.fedorapeople.org/repo-network-enablement.ogg Network enablement for iSCSI device: http://rvykydal.fedorapeople.org/iscsi-network-enablement.ogg Notes and things to consider: - The hostname screen (http://rvykydal.fedorapeople.org/hostname-screen.png) could be updated with information/suggestion about network configuration and its particularities (e.g. it is common for installer environment and target system, suggestions about post-boot automatic device bringup, etc.). The (hard-to-notice) Configure Network button is removed. - The panel could be used for other stuff too. (Just out of interest, I put there cpu and network monitoring plugins to watch, unfortunately memory usage plugin didn't work for me) - In this version the applet is accessible from the beginning - before storage configuration, so the FCoE devices aren't filtered-out (by setting NM_CONTROLLED=no by anaconda) for the applet. - fbpanel is not a part of rhel 6. - The growth of packed initrd img is less than 450 KB (including docs, man pages, and some other stuff that would be removed by buildinstall/ lorax) - Layout of the panel is to be UI-experted. Also panel start-up is not smoothest in this version: http://rvykydal.fedorapeople.org/panel-startup.ogg - Nice amount of code is removed from anaconda, and special handling of ONBOOT ifcfg setting which used to be needed to activate/deactivate devices, and caused quite a lot of problems due to this overoload, is gone. Radek _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
