During OS setup, after the OS is installed and when they are doing the first boot setup, there are a few things that just feel bad from a UX perspective for getting connected to the network via WIFI.
All of this is on ultramarine 43 running gnome.
WIFI device refreshing
If you press the connect to a wifi network button, it gives you a UI that would show wifi networks. The problem is that if you have no wifi cards connect to the system, it just says it cant find anything. The button to be able to close it is kinda small at the top, and I think users would expect either live refreshing, or at least a button to refresh devices that is obvious. Also the current flow requires you to close the menu entirely and then reopen by pressing the connect to a wifi network button.
The easy solution is just add a refresh devices button, which effectively could just close the window and then do whatever the connect to a wifi network button does in its on click handler.
The better but complicated solution is some kind of live device refreshing, but that is obviously more dev work.
SSID List Window slowness
Hitting the connect to a wifi network button is pretty slow. you click it and the window doesnt open for a few seconds at least on this hardware, and you can't even tell its loading.
If we can make it faster, do that.
If we can't make it faster, opening the new window immediately, have a spinner, and then show the proper UI when its ready would at least be better.
WIFI Password UI
The WIFI Password entry screen at least on my gnome install feels like its surrounded by a window out of windows 95 and does not match any of the other UI design.
WIFI Password Timeout
The WIFI password entry screen times out after 90 seconds. This is not great cause if someone gets up to go get their password, for example wifi password sticky note, it will likely timeout by the time they are back. Not having to timeout at all if possible would be better.
Post Connection Flow
After you connect to WIFI, the window with the list of WIFI networks/SSIDs does not go away. you have to manually click the X button to then see the page that actually says "success you have connected to the network", and then hit the next button.
Closing the window as soon as we can see a usable internet connection would be better. It would also be good if the network is attached but does not have internet access to immediately tell the user that problem.
During OS setup, after the OS is installed and when they are doing the first boot setup, there are a few things that just feel bad from a UX perspective for getting connected to the network via WIFI.
All of this is on ultramarine 43 running gnome.
WIFI device refreshing
If you press the connect to a wifi network button, it gives you a UI that would show wifi networks. The problem is that if you have no wifi cards connect to the system, it just says it cant find anything. The button to be able to close it is kinda small at the top, and I think users would expect either live refreshing, or at least a button to refresh devices that is obvious. Also the current flow requires you to close the menu entirely and then reopen by pressing the connect to a wifi network button.
The easy solution is just add a refresh devices button, which effectively could just close the window and then do whatever the connect to a wifi network button does in its on click handler.
The better but complicated solution is some kind of live device refreshing, but that is obviously more dev work.
SSID List Window slowness
Hitting the connect to a wifi network button is pretty slow. you click it and the window doesnt open for a few seconds at least on this hardware, and you can't even tell its loading.
If we can make it faster, do that.
If we can't make it faster, opening the new window immediately, have a spinner, and then show the proper UI when its ready would at least be better.
WIFI Password UI
The WIFI Password entry screen at least on my gnome install feels like its surrounded by a window out of windows 95 and does not match any of the other UI design.
WIFI Password Timeout
The WIFI password entry screen times out after 90 seconds. This is not great cause if someone gets up to go get their password, for example wifi password sticky note, it will likely timeout by the time they are back. Not having to timeout at all if possible would be better.
Post Connection Flow
After you connect to WIFI, the window with the list of WIFI networks/SSIDs does not go away. you have to manually click the X button to then see the page that actually says "success you have connected to the network", and then hit the next button.
Closing the window as soon as we can see a usable internet connection would be better. It would also be good if the network is attached but does not have internet access to immediately tell the user that problem.