Hi,
I don't know if this is the right place to raise this but this new design feels like a step backwards. What used to be a beautiful and clear design is now much more confusing and complicated:
* Controls for switching between the views used to run horizontally in the top navbar, now they run both horizontally in the navbar and vertically in the sidebar. It's not clear to me what the division of labour between the top navbar and the sidebar is.
* The sidebar is sometimes visible and sometimes not. It's not visible in the Dashboard but is visible everywhere else. This makes the UI jumpy.
* The sidebar has an expander (Tools) despite having oodles of space and the top navbar is now mostly empty. There is a huge amount of empty space in both.
* The System view has controls (Host Name, Domain, System Time and Power Options) and graphs (CPU, Memory, Network Traffic, Disk I/O) side by side in two columns. (With the sidebar, resulting in a three column layout.) There is a large empty space below the controls and the graphs don't fit into view at once on a 1920x1080 display and so there is a scrollbar.
* The Dashboard view only shows one graph at a time and seems mostly useless now. This seems to be acknowledged by having the System view (instead of the Dashboard) as default after logging in.
Would it be possible to come up with a design that ditches the sidebar and returns the controls for switching between the views to the top navbar?
Thanks, Teppo
On 03.03.2015 12:44, Stef Walter wrote:
After a lot of work, we merged new navigation into Cockpit today. This clearly separates dashboards from per-host configuration.
If you're tracking git master, you need to reinstall and restart cockpit.
More info:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/1861 https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/1726
Some follow up work that still needs to be done:
https://trello.com/c/59Ajm8lz/53-multiple-dashboards
This will be part of Cockpit 0.41
Cheers,
Stef