Re: Interest in patch for web interface to enable/disable servers

Hi Cyril,

that's nice that you reviewed the patch because I finally did not have the time for this yet.

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:18:02PM +0200, Cyril Bonté wrote:
> 3. I'm not fond of the colored buttons used to enable/disable the servers. I
> guess that some users will mistakenly click on this mysterious square. I don't
> know if others agree with that.

I agree with that, that was one of my concerns too. I've thought about it a bit and now I think that one of the safest ways to change a server status would be to proceed somewhat like we do in webmails to remove mails :

• have a check box for each server ("enabled")
• have a global "change state(s)" button to send the changes and a global "reset" button to reset the original states. Maybe having these buttons per backend would be enough though.

The advantages are that it is not too much annoying for the user and that it avoids unexpected state changes.

Regards,
Willy Received on 2010/07/06 06:19