re-ordering the tabs

John Mazzitelli mazz at redhat.com
Mon Nov 29 19:33:12 UTC 2010


git commit 59c7975de567f3265aa316a4c9360c09341173e9

event tab moved after monitoring. so the order of the tabs are now:

Summary, Inventory, Alert, Monitor, Events, Operations, Config, Content

This is true for both individual resources and all types of groups 
(mixed, compat, auto).

On 11/29/2010 01:51 PM, Ian Springer wrote:
> Sounds good to me.
>
> Maybe put Events right after Monitor, since it's really a form of
> monitoring, and so the two tabs that potentially involve updating the
> Resource or its state - Configuration and Operations - are all the way
> to the right.
>
> On 11/29/2010 10:46 AM, John Mazzitelli wrote:
>> I'm looking at the tabs, and I don't see any rhyme or reason why they
>> are ordered the way they are:
>>
>> Summary, Monitor, Inventory, Operations, Alerts, Configuration, Events
>>
>> Can I recommend we change this order to:
>>
>> Summary, Inventory, Alert, Monitor, Operations, Configuration, Events
>>
>> for the following reasons:
>>
>> Summary, Inventory relate to what makes up the resource - what it IS -
>> it defines the resource itself and how its constituted. So we keep them
>> together and up front.
>>
>> Alerts relate to what the resource did or is doing that is abnormal -
>> its really standalone. But we have it here, third, for a reason, see below.
>>
>> Monitor, Operations, Configuration, Events are all subsystems that
>> describe what the resource is doing or can do. Thus, we keep them all
>> together. Since Operations, Config and Events are optional, they appear
>> after Monitor (thus, since Monitor always exists, its always first in
>> this group, the other three can appear in any combination depending on
>> the resource type).
>>
>> Note:
>>
>> Summary, Inventory, Alert and Monitor always exist - so the first four
>> tabs will always be in the same place for any resource (i.e. the UI will
>> be consistent no matter what resource you are looking for).  e.g. If I
>> want to go to an alert tab, I know, regardless of what resource I'm
>> looking at, I need to go to the third tab.
>>
>> And for groups, its basically the same - the first THREE tabs are always
>> the same. So, no matter what I'm looking at - a compat group, mixed
>> group, auto-group or individual resource, the first three tabs are
>> always the same. Full consistency of the tabs across every view - the
>> only tabs that come and go are the subsystem tabs and they are on the
>> far right - the location of summary, inventory, alerts, monitor never move.
>>
>> Unless there are objections, I would like to alter the tabs so they
>> appear in the order as described above.
>>
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