Pluggable UI and job UI are feature requirements that we need to implement, I guess Sonny would like the feedbacks about general UIX ideas.
Maybe I'm a too boring person, I actually like how Microsoft Outlook navigates, with sliding tab + single tree pane. For frequent actions, how about to allow per-user UI profile? Allow creating customized UI profile, providing UI profile persistence so that people can always go back to where he was left off, etc Kelven > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:21 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: CloudStack UIX > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > > For CloudStack Admin Console, we need to innovate in the following > areas. These all have to do with being able to do more with less action. > > > > - Pluggable UI to configure plugins > > +1 (would be +5 if it could be) > > > - A monitor pane where resources can be put into and taken out of > monitoring mode > > Interesting idea, but would probably require some design concepts to > see if it would be useful / usable. > > > - A simple collapsible tree view of the resources > > I'm not certain I agree with a tree view for two reasons: First, a > large scale environment typically has too many elements for a tree to > be the best method of navigation. Second, it leads to the same type > of problem of too many clicks to get to something important. > > Those two reservations can sometimes be dealt with pretty elegantly by > coupling a tree with a really simple (but useful) quick search > feature. > > > - Jobs management ui > > +1
