Hi Jan,

 

I’m not sure if I’m following you. Did you mean changing the second-level navigation to tabs instead of panel areas? If so should we merge Hosts and Admin tab in one page and collapse the panels like old-ui behavior (maybe keeping the dashboard statistics on top unchanged) but with new-ui styles OR add two new tabs to the toolbar?

 

I think the concept of accordion/collapsible elements works for Admin, but I don’t see it working for the panels on Hosts tab, unless we group Basic Information, Repositories and Debug Reports in one single collapsible area.

 

I also discussed with Aline if we should move Peer Hosts from top to the toolbar and make it a plugin. Here’s a mockup I did with Chrome:

 

 

 

 

The reason why I think all panels in these pages can’t be merged in one tab is because if all panels were collapsed, the page height would be around 3757 pixels. If admin items were hidden, it would be around 2108 tall. I believe we would have to set the accordions to hide other items when one item is collapsed.  They don’t seem that tall in the PDF because the images were resized.

 

I believe we have to study this following a “mobile-first” approach because once we all agree with the new design, even if we don’t include the mobile design in 2.0 release, we’ll have to keep some markup ready for responsive design to receive the new styles. I think this new tab design would need some updates in tab-ext.xml and the JS files before 2.0 release, assuming other people or teams would start developing new plugins from 2.0 and on. If we update how the tabs are built in the UI from 2.0 to 2.1 for instance, that may turn against us with retro compatibility issues.

 

 

Regards,

Samuel

 

 

From: kimchi-devel-bounces@ovirt.org [mailto:kimchi-devel-bounces@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Jan Schneider
Sent: quinta-feira, 8 de outubro de 2015 13:10
To: Aline Manera <alinefm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kimchi-devel@ovirt.org
Subject: [Kimchi-devel] UI Change Request - Navigation

 

Hello Aline,

I refer to the latest version of the
User Interface Design Specification - Kimchi, 2014-12-23 (aka UI Design Spec)
which defines the following structure of functionalities:

Host (second level navigation via panel areas)
   Performance (System Statistics)
   Basic Information
   Repositories
   Debug Report
   Software Updates

Guests
    no second level functionalities

Templates
    no second level functionalities

Storage
    no second level functionalities

Networks
    no second level functionalities

Administration (second level navigation via collapse/expand)
   Firmware Update
   SEP Configuration
   Power Options
   Configuration Backup
   Network Configuration
   SAN Adapters
   Sensor Monitor



Problem Statement

We already decided to move all Administration functionalities to Host (currently not updated in the UI Design Spec).

We are currently facing the following problems:
1) Host now contains 12 second level functionalities, all other (Guests, Templates, ...) none.
     We need to introduce a second level navigation for Host other than collapse/expand
2) The navigation bar elements Storage and Network (refering to Virtualization) also exist in the Host context.
     This might confuse the user.



Proposal

The described problems can be solved with the following changes:

1) Introducing a second level navigation
2) Changing the structure of functionalities as follows:

Host
   Performance (System Statistics)
   Basic Information
   Repositories
   Debug Report
   Software Updates
   Firmware Update
   SEP Configuration
   Power Options
   Configuration Backup
   Network Configuration
   SAN Adapters
   Sensor Monitor

Virtualization
   Guests
   Templates
   Storage
   Networks

Containers (future extension)
   to be defined



Let's start a discussion on this.

Kind regards
Jan