Brain, imo, a quick document/guide is required right now, it will greatly help developers to start off building their UI with current widgets.
regarding new features: 1) in 2.2.y UI, we can select multiple VMs and start/stop them as a whole, 3.0.x lost this handy funcitonality. 2) can we associate a refresh button with listView? or every time users have to nagivate back and forth to fresh it. 3) add sort functionality to listView Regards Mice 2012/9/8 Kelcey Damage (BBITS) <kel...@bbits.ca>: > Hmm, this is cool, as I have had an inkling to build desktop widgets for CS > data. And I would like to build a Metro interface... yeah I know, it's pure > evil. > > I think what you're doing has great potential. > > KELCEY DAMAGE > Infrastructure Systems Architect > www.backbonetechnology.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > kel...@bbits.ca > > address: 55 East 7th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 1M4 > tel: +1 604 713 8560 ext:114 > fax: +1 604 605 0964 > skype: kelcey.damage > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Federle [mailto:brian.fede...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:48 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: CloudStack UI: New widget library development > > Hi All, > > In an effort to improve the user interface architecture and promote > reusability, I am compiling all common UI elements present in CloudStack into > a robust widget library. The main focus will be to improve UI developers' > experience and to allow other people to utilize the widgets in their own > projects. > > Here are some of the improvements planned: > > -Organize all current components into separate, easy to use widgets, > particularly: > > -Sliding panel system > -Table list > -Details table > -Form dialog > > -Navigation system > > -Tree view > > -Complete test coverage with qunit, for all widget features > > -Easy-to-read documentation on how the widgets work and their parameters > > -More modular architecture, to prevent code duplication and to isolate > specific features for better maintainability. > > As I am in the design phase right now for this widget library, I would love > to hear from the community on how to improve the CloudStack UI > codebase: > > -Any way to make the widgets/UI easier to maintain > > > -Things you don't like about developing with the current UI > > -Any new features that would be beneficial > > I'm doing development right now on a github repository, but ultimately once > complete the library will make its way back into the CloudStack project > source. Feel free to browse/pull/watch the code there: > > https://github.com/bfederle/cloud-ui-toolkit/ > > Also, I'll post some initial documentation soon, which will describe how the > widgets can be implemented, etc. > > -Brian > >
