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

[Pavel Hrdina]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 03:16:36PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 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.

So this probably somehow depends on the window manager.  For example on
Fedora with gnome-shell everything is perfect, but on Fedora with
Openbox it doesn't fit into the vm-create windows and the extended part
is hidden.  So I guess you can ignore this comment.

Pavel
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