[Engine-devel] [UX] how to design a bar/line chart?

[Tomas Jelinek]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
> To: "Eldan Hildesheim" <ehildesh at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>, "info" <info at eldanet.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 4:15:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [UX] how to design a bar/line chart?
> 
> Is this going to fit in a row of a table? Or are we talking of a more
> detailed view?

it should fit into one cell of the table 

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eldan Hildesheim" <ehildesh at redhat.com>
> To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> Cc: "info" <info at eldanet.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 8:01:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [UX] how to design a bar/line chart?
> 
> Throw this gif into a browser. This is more or less what I thought.
> Eldan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
> To: "Eldan Hildesheim" <ehildesh at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>, "info" <info at eldanet.com>,
> engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:03:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [UX] how to design a bar/line chart?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eldan Hildesheim" <ehildesh at redhat.com>
> > To: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "info" <info at eldanet.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 3:56:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [UX] how to design a bar/line chart?
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > We use to have a good solution in the period pre-WPF.
> > A line chart (used to be in flash) that works like a plotter:
> > The Line Bar (not bar) had a small animation that shifted all the bar to
> > the
> > left.
> > When a new data arrived it just added a new line (to the right) and as I
> > said
> > before, in parallel it always shifted slowly to the left.
> 
> Any chance you still have some screenshot or mockup so I can imagine it
> better?
> 
> > The animation gives the impression that data is streaming and when a real
> > new
> > data arrives the user gets it very fast.
> > We have to sync between the animation and the rate of the arrival of the
> > data
> > but this is easy.
> > If we can't find a good framework it can be created from scratch with JS,
> > svg
> > or canvas.
> 
> We need to be careful about what we will use. oVirt is supposed to work on FF
> 17 [1]
> but the HTML5 canvas works only since FF23 [2].
> 
> @Einav:
> Is there a chance that we could start support only FF23+ and IE9+ (this one
> is already OK)
> because of this feature?
> 
> > Now regarding its position:
> > Rollover is good but not enough, we should somehow put it in the lower
> > panel
> > under general or even another tab - (live data).
> 
> This is a bit different requirement. The point of this specific is to give a
> better
> overview in the main tab. If it will be done we can decide if we want to give
> more
> details in sub tabs.
> 
> > We could later on have a (live data Tab) in other places as well like host,
> > cluster...
> > Eldan
> 
> [1]: http://www.ovirt.org/Download
> [2]: http://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas
> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> > To: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>
> > Cc: "Alexander Wels" <awels at redhat.com>, "Eldan Hildesheim"
> > <ehildesh at redhat.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org, "info" <info at eldanet.com>
> > Sent: Friday, November 8, 2013 10:50:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [UX] how to design a bar/line chart?
> > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:44:07 AM
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:45:36AM -0500, Alexander Wels wrote:
> > > > I suppose we need to answer a few questions before we can go into which
> > > > library is better:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Do we mind sending data over to Google so Google can render images
> > > > for
> > > > us.
> > > 
> > > I'd say no. Even from a reliability point of view since users may have
> > > systems that aren't connected to the internet.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > > (Though I don't know how well oVirt handles this currently.)
> > 
> > AFAIK - oVirt is handling it ('it' ==  having no internet connection) well.
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