CIS Charrette - Firewall Alert

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[glifford]

Voted Yes - I like it very much especially the Connection Details tab.
Suggestion - A merging of 'Address & Port' to 38.119.130.61 : 80 (http). This simplifies interface and saves space.

-> I wanted a way to easily add more general rules when the Alert Level is set to 'Very High' while keeping some information.

So I just posted a wish with some screenshots: Firewall Alert - Very High

Oh hey! I didn't see that you posted here when I replied to your thread.

Thanks for the vote. As for your suggestion. I actually had been considering doing that early on, but didn't for a couple reasons. The explanation field on the considerations tab is about the right size, despite the message I used being pretty short. Anything smaller wouldn't fit a scroll wheel very well. So, the alert is about as compressed as I'd want it to be in that respect. It should be compatible with netbook screens. Last I checked the image size it worked. The other reason is that I wanted space to fit port names comfortably in the field. Plus, now with ipv6, I think it'd be nice to show both the unabbreviated and abbreviated addresses side by side.

Other things I'm thinking about for the next iteration are...

That tab I talked about in your thread, that would allow the user to live-tune alert frequency. However, I think I may call the tab "Precision."

I also think it may be in the novice user's interest to have the predefined policy drop down always showing, however, I'm not yet sure how to make it novice-friendly.

I'm also considering moving the additional options into a tab. So the alert wouldn't have to expand or contract jarringly like it would currently.

All together that makes four tabs. I'm thinking... "Summary" "Details" "Precision" "More"

[Focuscar]

I think that the interface with the 4 tabs you proposed (Summary, Details, Precision, More) is very nice as it would be more user friendly.

Not to forget that my personal interest is the = Precision tab 

[glifford]

Alright. I've laid down the foundation for the new design. Next up, mock-ups for each tab!

[Valentin N]

I like what you are doing!

Regards,
            Valentin N

[glifford]

Sorry Focusar. I lied.

I didn't like what I'd come up with, so I took another stab at the basic window layout. I think this is way more space efficient, simple, and direct. My only problem with it is that the work-flow is right to left, which is weird.

So now, I promise. The next thing I do will be the precision tab.

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Thank you Valentin

[Valentin N]

Thank you Valentin

your welcome  

[glifford]

The new windows are here!

Focusar, I realized the slider was removing functionality from your idea, so I made it a bit more like your original suggestion.

[Valentin N]

Looks awsome! this is something Comodo should take and use I wish Melih has something to say.

Regards,
            Valentin N

[Focuscar]

The new windows are here!

Focusar, I realized the slider was removing functionality from your idea, so I made it a bit more like your original suggestion.

ok, seems nice. 

[wasgij6]

im really liking what u have come up with here
Great job
this would really make people happy if comodo used this

i just had one small change to the button layout
remove "... this connection." after the allow and block buttons
it is redudant since this is a firewall alert is for internet connections
i attatched a modified version of your attached pics of what i mean

keep up the great work

EDIT: i made another version i changed the buttons to the ones cis uses and moved things around
tell me what u think

[captain.abstract]

hello!
would be nice to have an option to quickly allow an application to connect to any ip/any port, specified ip/any port, any ip/specified port etc, like this:

well, maybe the Precision tab would work out the same task better.

[Lasse88]

That looks awesome 

[Siketa]

Fantastic!  

Great improvement over the existing pop-up....
Defense+ notifications should also be redesigned by this pattern...

I hope this will be included in CIS v6....devs?

[Rave Kool]

A little bit more user friendly.....

[SG65]

A little bit more user friendly.....

Surely you jest, Sir.

Even the above average user would have pains to go through all the options before the pop-up would fade (why is there not an option to keep alerts indefinitely?).

The regular user will simply not notice anything but "Allow" and "Block".

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