[hobbit] Input needed from all of you.

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday, 7 July 2010 07:22:51 Stef Coene wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2010, Neil Franken wrote:
> > HI All
> >
> > To be honest I have already created a CSS for Xymon and I am busy
> > testing various resolutions.

Great,

However, I feel that the default theme should not change significantly. There 
are many reasons for this, but some Xymon/Hobbit displays are very widely 
seen, and users upgrading to (some version in the future with) CSS should not 
meet any surprises or have to struggle making their already customised (within 
limits) displays work for an upgrade.

Neil, now that you have some feedback, can we move some of this discussion to 
the developer list? Once there is something to show that needs user feedback, 
maybe we can have screenshots etc. and do a user survey?

> > I wish I had more time but my 9 month old
> > daughter pretty much forces me to spend all my time with her and Barney
> > the Dinosaur. Jokes aside I will document my ideas over the next few
> > days and I will also try find a place to put up a example or two of the
> > site. So far I am not messing with colour themes/icon etc I just want to
> > get the layout sorted. Cosmetic while being the most prestigious part of
> > the site is not a high priority. Functionality first.
> 
> If you want some help or if you want me to try your changes, let me know.
> 
> I added jquery to my pages.  I have a big test that returns a lot of log
>  lines and I use jquery to hide them all, execept for the error lines.  If
>  you click on 'open all', all lines are showed.  It can also be used for
>  dynamic menu's, hover action and much more.

We definitely need to consider an AJAX library/framework of some kind, as these 
kinds of features can help to improve the usability of the web frontend.

It might even be an idea to do this with the some of the default tests 
(ports,msgs procs etc.).

Regards,
Buchan