[Freeipa-users] Alpha 2 Bugs or Misconfigurations?

[Dmitri Pal]

Ryan Thomson wrote:
>> Unfortunately this might be one of many cases where the UI just does not
>> work yet.
>> There are some patches pending but we decided not to apply them since
>> they are big and could cause side effects.
>> The UI that you see is more a declaration of the direction of the UI
>> rather than a working functionality.
>> It has a lot of glitches we will be cleaning in the upcoming month
>> leading to Beta.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the information. Good to know I'm not just doing something obviously wrong right now.
>
> Should I be filing bug reports for these kinds of issues at this time or wait until further releases when some of the pending patches have been applied?
>
>   
>> I guess the main goal at the moment is answering the questions like:
>> a) Is the whole model of the "list-select-do" like it was in old dialog
>> boxes is the right model?
>> b) Do the buttons make sense? Does their meaning makes sense?
>> c) Should we pre-fill the lists automatically (like it is done now) or
>> require search first?
>>     
>
> I much prefer listing items automatically but I could see this being problematic in huge installations of there is no "paging" functionality when you reach over X number of records.
>
>   
>> d) Is it Ok to switch back and forth between the list view and item view
>> or we should combine them in some way?
>> And many more...
>>
>> Ideas and comment are always welcome!
>> Thank you for looking into this. Sorry if we did not meet your expectations.
>>     
>
> I'll spend more time with the UI tomorrow and see if I can get a feel for the other questions you're looking for feedback on.
>
> --Ryan
If you can summarize your thoughts about the UI in a bulleted list and
just send it out would be better.
Filing bigs for every single issue might be an overhead at the moment.

Thank you again for you help and interest.
Dmitri

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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