Patrick, Thanks. It's a clean design, but it lacks, IMO, some elements that a GUI should include to make life easier for the users. A Sandbox can be created either from an already expanded Binary Base Directory or from a tarball. A GUI should scan some predefined directories and present a choice of these sources for an easy use. The second element that a user may want is the choice of port and directory, which the GUI application should make easy to select. IMO, the usefulness of a GUI is to make the options easy to choose. An interface to just the main actions is not what I would want to use.
Giuseppe 2009/4/4 Walter Cervini <[email protected]>: > Very nice. > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 18:51, Patrick Crews <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> Attached is a screenshot of the Create Sandbox GUI I've put together so far. >> I didn't bother to attach code as it currently doesn't really do anything >> yet - I wanted to make sure people liked the layout before digging too much >> further. >> All of the elements should be self-explanatory for the creation process, but >> here are some notes on how I envision this behaving: >> 1) Selecting master-master automatically sets Server count to 2, values !=2 >> should deselect master-master >> 2) Selecting the custom toggle will create <Server_count> Source entry >> items at the bottom of the GUI >> 3) Hover-overs for guidance >> 4) I'm still deciding whether topology should just be ignored for non >> 'Replication' creations or to have that appear / disappear (extra code + >> complexity there). This behavior could be part of the hover-over >> description. >> 5) The '...' button is to pull up a file selector GUI item if you don't >> want to manually input the source path. >> >> Of course, there are probably some more elements I am not thinking of, so >> any improvements / omissions / etc are most welcome. >> Thanks, >> Patrick >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sandbox-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sandbox-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > > -- > Walter Cervini > movil: 0424-1543350 > Pin: 20911CF3 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sandbox-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sandbox-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- The Data Charmer http://datacharmer.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sandbox-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sandbox-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
