[ovirt-devel] [RFC] Introducing VM Icons

[Jakub Niedermertl]

Hi Einav,

exactly. VMs inherit icons form Templates and their icons can be later edited. I've added some info regarding icon inheritance and pool on wiki.

Jakub


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> To: "Jakub Niedermertl" <jniederm at redhat.com>
> Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:08:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [RFC] Introducing VM Icons
> 
> Thanks, Jakub,
> 
> so regardless of VM pools: I understand that a VM will inherit the icon
> from the Template it is based on by default, with an option to override
> it, obviously (within the New/Edit VM dialog)?
> (haven't noticed anything about it in the wiki page)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jakub Niedermertl" <jniederm at redhat.com>
> > To: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> > Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1:46:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [RFC] Introducing VM Icons
> > 
> > Hi Einav,
> > 
> > current plan is that icon of will not be editable and will be simply copied
> > form the template the pool is based on. I believe that there is not much
> > need to edit icon of pool since pool are not directly visualized using
> > icons
> > in Userportal.
> > 
> > AFAIK pools (even those containing multiple VMs) are displayed as one
> > entity
> > in Userportal. So icon of the pool will be used. Internally there will be
> > an
> > icon stored in each VM object in case of detaching from pool. Editing the
> > icon will only be possible after detaching.
> > 
> > (This is only first shot. It's not supposed to be comprehensive but rather
> > small coherent step to improve user experience. Of course there is plenty
> > of
> > room for enhancements.)
> > 
> > Best regards.
> > Jakub
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Jakub Niedermertl" <jniederm at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 5:00:25 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [RFC] Introducing VM Icons
> > > 
> > > Hi Jakub,
> > > 
> > > Is this also expected to affect VM pools? I.e. will I be able
> > > to associate an icon with:
> > > 
> > > - the VM Pool object, which will affect the icon for a pool
> > > when displayed in the user portal?
> > > 
> > > - all VMs created within a VM Pool (i.e. via the Add/Edit
> > > Pool dialog), which will affect the icon for all pooled-VMs
> > > once displayed in the user portal (and can this icon
> > > potentially be overridden for each VM individually via the
> > > 'Edit VM' dialog)?
> > > 
> > > ----
> > > Thanks,
> > > Einav
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Jakub Niedermertl" <jniederm at redhat.com>
> > > > To: devel at ovirt.org
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:44:37 AM
> > > > Subject: [ovirt-devel] [RFC] Introducing VM Icons
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I started to work on new engine UI feature - VM icons
> > > > (http://www.ovirt.org/Features/VM_Icons). It allows to customize
> > > > Userportal
> > > > icons of VMs and Templates using uploaded images. Any comments are
> > > > welcome.
> > > > 
> > > > Jakub
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> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
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