First off, Thank You everyone for your feedback. This is good to hear in terms of trying to improve upon the CloudStack experience.
A few things to note: Too many clicks: We have heard the feedback about multiple clicks and are working on trying to limit the amount. Our first steps to working toward this goal can be found in the new infrastructure page where we will be providing quick links to the Zones, pods, clusters, host, etc...that will take you to a global list of the properties regardless of zone selected. We would appreciate feedback on where you would see most of your time being spent so that we can find a way for you to reach that destination sooner. More info less action: As Pranav mentioned in the earlier response, we are toying with the idea of adding more information to the table/list view with fewer actions required by the user. I'll add a post with screenshots to the wiki for a better explanation. Customizable content and pluggable framework: If you take a look at the wiki and click on the "Flip Dashboard" link, you'll see an example of a completely revamped dashboard. The concept here is to add not only monitoring information but common actions such as create a vm, create a zone, etc...It would be ideal to have the user add whatever common used functionality to this dashboard to make ease of use for them. If this is an idea you would like us to pursue then please let us know and we will try to work towards it. I'll be posting more concepts and designs on the wiki and will be answering more questions as they come in. Once again Thank You all for the feedback and I hope these answers helped. http://confluence.cloudstack.org/display/COMM/CloudStack+UIX http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/COMM/CloudStack+UIX?focusedCommentId=9601436#comment-9601436 Thank You and Best Regards, Sonny H. Chhen Sr. Visual Designer | Citrix Systems - CloudPlatform 4988 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA -----Original Message----- From: Kelven Yang [mailto:kelven.y...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:45 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: CloudStack UIX 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
