[ovirt-devel] oVirt 4.2 and UI plugin infrastructure

[Greg Sheremeta]

+Alexander, can you take a look?

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think I found one issue.. I do not see the extra menu items that were
> supposed to be added to VMs (used to be available in context menu as well).
>
> You can check it with
>
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-optimizer_master_check-
> patch-el7-x86_64/65/
>
> Martin
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> We haven't changed the API, so everything should still work. For example,
>> I just installed 4.1 versions of dashboard and support-plugin in master,
>> and all's well [*]:
>>
>> API:
>>
>> api.addSubTab('Template', 'Red Hat Documentation',
>> 'my-host-subtab-template', '<url snip>', {alignRight: true});
>> api.setTabAccessible('my-host-subtab-template', true);
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> [*] however, note that "alignRight" is now ignored
>>
>> And dashboard 4.1.8 installed in master engine:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 2]
>>
>>
>> That said, we probably should have sent some announcement about making
>> sure the plugins actually look good with the new theme. If some plugins are
>> greenish, that will look bad.
>>
>> To help with styling external things, we've started exposing more CSS via
>> a new SASS brand module:
>> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/tree/master/frontend/
>> brands/ovirt-brand/src/main/sass
>> Also, we're heavily relying on base PatternFly styles, and plugins should
>> do the same. For example, the new dialog styles are completely PatternFly [
>> http://www.patternfly.org/pattern-library/forms-and-control
>> s/modal-overlay/] and we don't do anything extra on top of that.
>>
>> Let us know if something doesn't work, or you need help styling something.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just got a question from an ovirt-optimizer user about the support
>>> in 4.2. And I realized I haven't heard anything about how UI plugins
>>> should be updated to work with the new UI.
>>>
>>> Is there anything special that needs to be done to make the plugin
>>> functional? Or will everything still work somehow?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Martin Sivak
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>>
>>
>>
>


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GREG SHEREMETA

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