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

[Itamar Heim]

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.

>
>
> Ciao
> - Frank
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