#5324 NORM Update.: Mesh/AP icons should always be in the same place and the same color.

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#5324: Mesh/AP icons should always be in the same place and the same color.
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  Reporter:  cscott            |       Owner:  Eben    
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:          
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0                 |    Blocking:          
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Comment(by Eben):

 I believe that the color situation has already been taken care of at this
 point, with APs receiving stroke and fill colors based on a hash of the
 essid.

 I think that making the mesh view of two kids appear roughly the same,
 however, is a near impossibility.  This assumption is based in part upon
 the fact that any configurations shown while on a mesh will be impossible
 to sync up with everyone else, and with others as the topology changes.
 More directly, though, future changes to the Neighborhood view for
 scalability will mean that different kids may see different default sets
 of objects in the view, which will require different layouts to display.

 The best I could offer for semi-deterministic placements of APs, given
 knowledge of the current algorithm for laying out objects such that they
 don't overlap, is to place  an added weight (with falloff) on the location
 determined by the hash of the essid.  In this manner, it will be more
 likely (but not guaranteed) that an AP will appear in roughly the same
 spot each time.  Still, this could be an improvement over what we have
 now.

 Another option, also interesting, would be to approximate their distance
 to the center of the screen based on their signal strength, so weak ones
 appear farther away.  With this approach, it will be likely that the best
 AP to pick will always appear near the center.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5324#comment:4>
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