[Users] [RFI] GUI Changes for oVirt 4.0

[René Koch]

On 03/18/2014 03:12 PM, Ernest Beinrohr wrote:
> Dňa 18.03.2014 11:29, Itamar Heim wrote / napísal(a):
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are brainstorming on what should we change in the oVirt UI for 4.0.
>> for current brainstorming phase, "anything goes" - i.e., I'd like us
>> to ignore current limitations and flows, and envision/fantasize the
>> "perfect solution".

Anything goes is great - so here's what came in mind :)

I would love to be able to use drag and drop in the gui. E.g. Drag and 
drop an vm selected in Virtual Machines tab to an host in the left 
system navigation menu. Or drag and drop it on Templates tab and the New 
Template window appears.

It would be cool if help would be available. When I installed oVirt 3.4 
I discovered a subtab "Affinity Groups" for my vms and I had no clue 
what I could do with this feature. So I visited oVirt wiki and searched 
for "Affinity Groups" and now I know what this is all about. But if a 
small "?" button would be available in the right upper corner of this 
tab explaining this feature in 1-2 sentences and giving a link to a 
detailed documentation page would help for non-experienced users/admins 
(online in oVirt wiki or offline shipped with oVirt).

Furthermore I would love to be able to use ui plugins for User portal as 
well...

What about a tab Logs where I could access engine.log file? At the 
moment I have to switch to console to be able to get more detailed 
information about an error and use search bar to find the corresponding 
line.

>>
>> SO - what do YOU think we should consider for 4.0 UI concept, flows, etc.
>
> I'd love to see this in the UI:
>
> - auto-refreshed screenshots from the VMs consoles.
> - some improved tagging/grouping

What about adding the possibility to create a tab out of a bookmark? I'm 
thinking of the following: Add a bookmark which displays all VMs 
belonging to Datacenter A and a bookmark which displays all VMs 
belonging to Datacenter B. So for me it would be cool if I would have a 
new main tab "VMs in DC A" and "VMs in DC B" - so I don't have to switch 
from System menu to Bookmarks menu, but can customize main tabs to best 
fit into my environment.

> - customizable columns with sorting/filtering (tags ?)

This would be cool.
I would love to be able to sort or enable/disable certain columns. E.g. 
FQDN column is pretty useless for me as the vm name already contains the 
FQDN in my setup. It would be cool if it would be possible for each user 
to create his view and have this saved.

> - cpu/disk/net utilization column like virt-manger has them

It would be great if I could add columns using ui plugins.
So e.g. I remove FQDN, Display, Status columns, but add my custom one 
with the monitoring status or I can add my custom graphs based on my 
monitoring system (or whatever) in addition or instead of the defined 
CPU/Memory/Network columns...

> - embedded serial console
> - disk operations and migration status with progress bar and ETA.

Vote for this as well.

> - console access from client->engine->host. Most of the time we do not
> have direct access to the hosts.
> - ability to define exclude entities ( aka these 2 vms may never run on
> the same storage and host )
>
>
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