[Users] Proposal for a fresh look and feel for Ovirt

Frank Wall fw at moov.de
Tue Oct 15 09:23:35 EDT 2013


On 15.10.2013 11:06, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>> - Display: not interesting if I just want to see the overview
>> - Status: redundant, the icon in the first row already tells me
>> about this
> 
>  Perhaps. But remember that "Shut down" and "Shutting down" actually
> have the same icon. If the status column gets ditched, the icons need
> to be more clear first, in my opinion.

Definitely. The icons need to be clear.


>> - Uptime: not interesting at all, I never used this information for
>> anything
> 
>  We do. It´s really good information to have when you use a
> centralized updating system like forcing updates and reboots through
> puppet or WSUS. If you see that every VM has been rebooted after there
> should have been updates except one, you know that VM probably is in
> some kind of trouble.

I understand your need, but would rather choose a monitoring
solution to do the verify task. Especially when using a centralized
updating system I would try hard to avoid this manual verification
step. But I guess this is another story :-)


Ciao
- Frank


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