[virt-tools-list] [PATCH v3] Redesign OS distro selection UI to be faster to use

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:09:24PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 11:44:23AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > The current OS distro selection UI is fairly cumbersome to use. First
> > you need to decide on a variant, then decide a distro and then look for
> > the version you want. The list is filtered by default so only a subset
> > of OS are displayed. So for less common distros you'll then need to
> > start again and tell it to show all OS to try to find the one you want.
> > 
> > The core problem is that we have an incredibly large list and want to
> > make it easy for the user to find a specific entry. The modern UI
> > paradigm for this problem is to provide interactive search with
> > live updated results. The current UI does provide an interactive search
> > facility on the OS version results, but you still have to first select a
> > variant to be able to use the search which is unhelpful.
> > 
> > This patch attempts to better apply the search UI design to the OS selection
> > problem. We get rid of the notion of variants, distros and version, and
> > provide a single text entry box in which the user can type a few letters
> > of the OS name. As they type, a popover displays the matching results
> > filtered on OS name. By default end of life OS will be hidden, so in
> > general there will only be a small handful of results left after just
> > typing a few characters. This makes it very quick to find and select the
> > desired OS, without needing to provide a mutli-step navigation hierarchy.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464306
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/osdict.py       |  26 ----
> >  ui/create.ui          | 205 +++++++-----------------
> >  ui/oslist.ui          | 104 +++++++++++++
> >  virtManager/create.py | 423 +++++++++-----------------------------------------
> >  virtManager/oslist.py | 106 +++++++++++++
> >  virtinst/osdict.py    |  88 +++--------
> >  6 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 593 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 ui/oslist.ui
> >  create mode 100644 virtManager/oslist.py
> 
> [...]
> 
> > diff --git a/ui/oslist.ui b/ui/oslist.ui
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 00000000..2424e900
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/ui/oslist.ui
> > @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
> > +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > +<!-- Generated with glade 3.20.4 -->
> > +<interface>
> > +  <requires lib="gtk+" version="3.14"/>
> > +  <object class="GtkPopover" id="vmm-oslist">
> > +    <property name="width_request">400</property>
> > +    <property name="height_request">300</property>
> 
> s/300/280/
> 
> The popover is to large to fit into the non-resizable vm-create window.

Why is that a problem?  It doesn't matter if it extends over the sides
of the vm-create window.

Regards,
Daniel
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