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 :-) Ciao - Frank