[jopr-dev] request for comments - timeline view

[Heiko W.Rupp]

Am 15.02.2009 um 21:15 schrieb Joseph Marques:
> the dual monitors i do my primary development on are standard aspect  
> ratio (though, my resolution is 1600x1200).  yes, there are a

We should cater for people with 1280 px in screen width. The following  
is from the web server of one of my domains:
1280*x makes 45% of all views and 1024*x makes for another 23%.

1280x800    29.9 %
1024x768    23.5 %
1280x1024 15.9 %
1440x900      8.2 %
1680x1050      7 %
Others   15.2 %

One may estimate that IT ops have the big screens, but we should not  
count on it.


> lot of tabs, but i'm less worried about the quantity of data shown  
> than i am about the placement of data and how intuitive things

This lots of tabs worries me. And the lots of meicoa icons

> would be to find.  case in point: microsoft word is a "busy"  
> application with it's ten or so default menus, and the 40 or so  
> icons on the two default toolbars, but having access to all of those  
> things at a glance because of they properly named and have somewhat  
> intuitive icons to identity what they do helps tremendously.  i  
> could see us in the future perhaps even replacing the text of  
> "monitor",

On the other hand, there are many people out there, that especially  
see Word as the prime example of complete
feature overload.

> "events", "configuration", "operations", "alerts", "content" with  
> more easily recognizable icons altogether (or maybe that would be a  
> user option [icon+text vs. icon-only vs. text-only]).

Icon only is bad. There are a few standard icons (e.g. disk symbol to  
save), but otherwise most of time the same icon
has three different meanings in two programs.

>> But - if we are to add a new tab, I do like the idea of a summary  
>> tab. That should probably be the landing tab when selecting a new  
>> resource from the Browse Resources (or any link when moving from a  
>> page without a resource in context).
> i would agree, it would be an ideal place to place links that don't  
> explicitly navigate to one of the other tabs via the "mica" icons.

Yes indeed.

Adding the display timerange there would allow to see historic data.  
RHQ-1496 has code to dynamically load availability
data and to autorefresh the timeline, so that users could change the  
range and a refresh of the timeline would show the
right stuff.
Simile also has a tiemeplot library, that is timeline + graphs, so one  
could even put some indicator charts in it.

    Heiko

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