[Users] oVirt 3.5 planning

[Karli Sjöberg]

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 15:26 -0500, Malini Rao wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Markus Stockhausen" <stockhausen at collogia.de>
> > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:20:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt 3.5 planning
> > 
> > > Von: users-bounces at ovirt.org [users-bounces at ovirt.org]&quot; im Auftrag von
> > > &quot;Itamar Heim [iheim at redhat.com]
> > > Gesendet: Montag, 24. Februar 2014 17:59
> > > An: users at ovirt.org
> > > Betreff: [Users] oVirt 3.5 planning
> > > 
> > > with oVirt 3.4 getting close to GA with many many great features, time
> > > to collect requests for 3.5...
> > 
> > 1) Webadmin cleanups. Several places provide too many informations
> > that make them feel overloaded. Columns that one usually does not care
> > about in the daily administration.
> > 
> > - main VM disk overview includes column with UUIDs
> > - VM overview includes column with display type (SPICE/VNC)
> > - VM overview includes additional status column (text: up/down)
> > - hosts overview includes host name/ip column
> 
> +1 We have talked of revisiting what gets displayed by default before too and also worked on a column selector that would allow users to display these other attributes when they feel it is necessary. Together, it may help address the information overload issue you are talking about. Can you and/or anyone else in the community continue the list you started here and identify the columns that are not useful to you in the various list views in Ovirt? I will be happy to compile them and then consolidate it after doing the pertinent analysis and reporting it back to you all for feedback.
> 
> thanks
> Malini
> 
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Yes, making all columns something you can choose what gets displayed
(with a couple of them chosen by default) would really solve this whole
issue of folks getting annoyed because of column X Y Z being
uninteresting for them. Also, this should be done for all main tabs, not
just VMs. Tall order, but would be a really nice feature.

Also cool would be to be able to sort columns ascending/descending.

When this gets implemented, something to consider would also be that if
a column is deselected, that information really won´t be loaded either.
So it´s not just a cosmetical fix (if everything gets loaded like usual,
just not displayed), but would also help "speed" up the webadmin as
well.

So if you only choose to show the "Name" column, only this information
gets loaded from engine, so it takes the shortest amount of time to
present. The more columns you choose, the more information you get, but
takes longer to present.

Does that make sense?



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