On Friday 17 February 2012 10:36:50 Marco van Wieringen wrote: > On 02/17/12 09:50 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > > Well, I plan to do some more work on usability besides sorting, so I > > suspect I might need someone to discuss some other topic in the future too. > I would start describing your feature request before doing any coding. > You could otherwise end up with > code that will never merge upstream. Not that it should hold you from > trying to add features that you need.
The tweaks I plan to do are really quite elementary UI usability improvements, but when there will be something to discuss, I'll of cource discuss it :) What I'm currently planning to look at (just some examples): - enable sorting where-ever possible - save order of columns everywhere - ability to show/hide columns - improve warning dialogs (currently there are multiple for one action, the texts are not nicely punctuated etc.) - improve brestore's interface (merge jobs, refresh etc.) And there's more :) > > But to my mind sorting should be implemented everywhere, including eg. > > pools and brestore (these are two places I use quite frequently and miss > > the ability to sort). > I think sorting in the mediaview is more then enough I guess when you talk > about sorting pools you are talking about the storage pane in which sorting > for me makes no sense when you have a autoloader and double click > on the storage you get the content of the autoloader and you can sort > any field > there. The tree view doesn't really have any interesting sorting options you > also have to take into consideration that you only want to sort certain rows > e.g. only the ones with a volume not the autoloader lines etc. Next to that > the storage tree is mostly there to get a fast overview. I don't use autoloaders (but 100% file-based backups), so I can't really comment on that. Actually I was talking about pools' view and in there I have felt the need to sort volumes by their sizes, by their last written date etc. Currently I have to sort them by going to the server and look at the files in command line. > > As I undestand, it's disabled for pools, because pools tab uses > > QTreeWidget, not QTableWidget and sorting correctly bytes/kbytes/Mbytes is > > not so trivial. There's custom sorting code implemented also for > > QTableWidget, so what has to be done, is expanding this custom code to > > QTreeWidget too. > See above I don't see a reason to sort in the storage view when we have > the better > autoloader content media view. So it will be a lot of work without much > gain. > But if you think it will add something then feel free to try to add it > but it won't > be obvious giving the problems described above. > > As to brestore sorting, yes that might be something I think its using > the standard QTableWidget > stuff so its should be obvious to add sorting. e.g. tag the fields with > the correct types and > enable sorting in the ui. Well, actually I did not yet look at brestore's code, but as the needed custom code for sorting is already in place for Media View, I guess it would also work in brestore. -- Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
