> On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 06:01 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > > Also after running bat I noticed something that may be a display bug. > > Attached is the picture. Notice the dates in the job plot are all > > smashed together making them unreadable.
And Dirk responded: > Actually that looks right, you just need to start refining the plot your > seeing. > [snip complicated explanation of how to adjust the display to > avoid character mangling] If the goal is to reach enterprise customers, then this isn't a good set of base parameters. You've got about 7 seconds to make a good first impression on someone you're going to ask for money, and a display with mangled characters loses pretty much immediately. Good GUIs shouldn't let users do things that foul visibility, or at minimum, warn them it's going to happen and why. That way it's not your fault when they can't read something...8-) > My intention is for the user to be able to start seeing trends > and whether those trends are spiking or gradually changing upwards. I'd suggest making the trend display a separate graph and defaulting to one day in the job display. If the user wants trends, let him ask for them. Also, you may want to calculate a bounding box for the labels individually, and if the box drops under 50% of the average font horizontal or vertical glyph size, you may want to pop a warning box that some labels may be obscured and the user should pick a smaller time interval for clarity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
