[Engine-devel] static header only in VM dialog?

[Einav Cohen]

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> > 
> > @Tomas - I suggest that you will clarify:
> > 
> > A) which fields exactly are going to be included in the top static header
> > of
> > the New VM
> > dialog *in your current patch batch* [2], and:
> 
> - Data Center
> - Cluster
> - Quota
> - Template (because according to the mockup the Image field will contain both
> Template and Image, so until we have images, just templates are there)
> - Vm Type (e.g. if server or desktop)
> - OS type
> (well, basically according to mockup, just without the instance type)
> 
> > 
> > B) which side-tabs in the New VM dialog will be affected by the fields in
> > (A).
> 
> More or less all with some exceptions - especially thanx to the template
> field. And this will not change at all after introducing instance
> types/templates because template = instance type + image. 

So it seems that it would make sense to introduce the top static header even 
before introducing the Instance Types + Image fields, as it already contains 
fields (namely 'Template') that affect most of the side-tabs.
Thanks, Tomas, for the clarification.

> So the question is not really if we want to
> wait until the instance types and images will affect enough side tabs
> (because that
> will not change at all) but if we want to have a top header panel or not. I
> personally start to think that it is more or less a question of taste.
> One may argue that it makes the dialogs more understandable (by having
> context all the time) and other that it makes them more un-understandable by
> flood of information in context you don't need.
> I guess either way has some advantages and disadvantages and there is no
> strict good/wrong solution.

+1

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