On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 20:22 -0400, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 10/15/2013 04:36 AM, Frank Wall wrote:
Hi Malini,
On 14.10.2013 19:06, Malini Rao wrote:
Here is a proposal for updating the ovirt look and feel to give it a fresh and modern look - http://www.ovirt.org/Ovirt_LAF. Your feedback and input is invited.
I think your proposal looks way better than the current oVirt interface and I think it would definitively be an improvement.
Though I think the oVirt admin interface still looks somewhat bloated. I always thought that it shows too much information at once, but only few of these facts are actually useful.
Some columns are useless most of the time. This is especially true if you consider the "Virtual Machines" tab just an overview, not an in-depth view of all VMs. Lets discuss this further:
- Display: not interesting if I just want to see the overview - Status: redundant, the icon in the first row already tells me about this - Uptime: not interesting at all, I never used this information for anything - Host, IP, Cluster, Datacenter: Really, why should I care about these details, if I just want to see an overview of my VMs? If I want to know any of these, I can click on any VM and see every detail. Or I choose a specific datacenter or Cluster to see specific details about it.
I think this applies to almost every "overview" page in oVirt. It's too much information at once, and even worse, too much useless information.
The point is to show only *really* important information first (status, usage), and from this point the user/admin should be able to go deeper and view specific details.
Remember, it's just my opinion :-)
as malini mentioned, this focused on look and feel. please open a BZ to track the RFE of allowing to choose which columns to see per main tab.
I'm of the same opinion as Frank (and others) - there should be an option to remove/add columns to improve the look and feel. Focusing on look and feel includes this discussion as well (imho) - not just colors. The login screen posted by Malini looks really great - much better then the actual one. I also like the colors of the webadmin interface, but usability is decreased (in the screenshot) compared with the old design. Let me explain why: When I click on Virtual Machines the most important information for me is the name of a virtual machine, but it's not that easy to find the name (Name column is smaller as Host, IP Address, Cluster and Data Center). If the Name would be bold (or in another color) and columns can be removed it's much easier for me to find the right vm. Furthermore the columns for Memory, CPU and Network are ways to big and the green is too bright - this is just additional information which can be very useful but shouldn't attract me too much. So I suggest to highlight the vm names in some way and make the Name column the bigger then all other (per default - users can resize it anyways). The blue highlight of the tabs looks nice, but I fear many users will not recognize these items as tabs. As a conclusion: I like the new colors a lot, but a few adjustments are needed to improve the usability. Regards, René
Ciao - Frank _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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