Notice: If you endorse these designs, please make sure to keep the topic up with a post as well. Let me know if there’s something you’d change.
Ultimately, we are controlling applications. Why then, do we have to jump from component to component to manage one application?
I propose a unified application control, whereby the user can control how every component of CIS handles the application. The following design combines the “Application System Activity Control” window, it’s child windows for “exclusions” and “customize policy,” and the “Application Network Access Control” window.
The design also adds functionality for advanced users, and convenience, hopefully, for everyone.
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- Quick access to advanced rules via tabs for more experienced users.
- An overview for any user to quickly determine how CIS’s various components handle the file.
- The ability to see a program name, not just its file name. I think this is especially important for novice users, and something that windows task manager has been doing for years.
- Apply button. Seriously.
- Quick toggles for more novice users.
- Ability to export/ import configuration for an individual application.
- Unification of workflow into a single drop down menu.
- Sort, search, and edit in line.
- Quick toggle on upper left mirroring the one on the summary tab.
- Slide out and in-line edit buttons hidden.
- Quick access to Network Zones and Port Sets via “Groups” button.
- Ability to export/ import configuration for an individual rule.
- Options button that brings the user to a window where they can change: whether or not the slide out buttons are always shown, whether or not the in-line edit buttons are always shown, what columns should be shown on the table.
- Slide out and in-line edit buttons shown.
- It should go without saying that everything you can do via button you can do via right click context menu.
- In-Line edit buttons hidden when fields are not being hovered over by the cursor.
- Fields can be customized via right click menus to be shown or hidden.
- This is an example showing only Priority, Name, and Description - akin to the classic UI. I’d also like to note just how opaque this list format is in comparison to the true table above.
- Sort, search, and edit in line.
- Quick toggle mirroring Basic Controls.
- Quick access to Registry/ File/ COM groups via “Groups” button.
- Tree style view for quick access to Exceptions.
- Ability to export/ import configuration for an individual rule.
- Slide-out buttons (like v6) with check-box to toggle buttons always-on.
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