Three wide buttons for something most radios cannot vary was noise, and
they pushed the fields below into whichever grid column came next — the
panel looked shuffled.
Now: a dropdown, shown only when the brand has more than one way in. A
Yaesu is reached over USB and that is the end of it; a control offering
one entry that cannot be changed is a decision that is not one.
Brands: OmniRig first — it is the one that works with any radio, so it is
where someone who cannot find their rig should land — then alphabetical.
Kenwood and Elecraft drop the proprietary-network entry: neither is
implemented and neither is planned, and naming a road that goes nowhere
is only useful when someone might reasonably look for it.
The standalone checkboxes (protocol log, DTR/RTS) take a full row instead
of half of one, which is what was breaking the alignment.