Global/General Network Activity Indicator

[ninavizz]

This is a next-iteration upon #32 for indicating network activity status to users

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Problem

How will general network activity be shown within the Client?

Considerations

• This ticket is for a non-specific, global "things are happening, packets are flying!" indicator.
• States discussed:
  • "We have contact with the Server, but packets have yet to fly"
  • "Packets are flying!"
  • "Derp, unstable or no contact with Server"

Acceptance Criteria

• Simple animation of a scenario that team agrees upon as good-to-go
• Animation is reasonably implementable for Beta
• Mockup(s) demonstrating possible different states
• Ready to handoff to @creviera

[eloquence]

(Keeping off near-term backlog on the board for now - priority is #32 and, as you note, field observations to better understand real world network conditions, so we can determine empirically what kind of user feedback we want to give while the client is running, in addition to error states.)

[ninavizz]

This document ready for review. If it is difficult to understand, pls ping @ninavizz offline; brain got mushy & I decided it was time to get collab happening. :)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXalueqcT8RWWG7osGLFO8dsG6_EB9NdbfJfE_NEmqw/edit?usp=sharing

[eloquence]

Thanks for the detailed spreadsheet, Nina! I suggest we take a look at this in the UX review on Tuesday. My immediate takeaway: I think we should be able to add many of these messages in a first iteration, and then perform measurements in Qubes and other observations to determine which messages should be grouped, etc.

Whether the next sprint is a good time to start making these updates, I would especially appreciate Jen's and Allie's input on.

[ninavizz]

This has been off the collective radar for many months, but a desire to show network activity to users in the client may arise in the future.