[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] Add task list to dashboard

[David Lutterkort]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:42 -0500, Scott Seago wrote:
> Scott Seago wrote:
> > Well the task type distinction is more for the benefit of taskomatic 
> > than for users -- the task type determines the behavior of the task. 
> > Different object pointed to, different ruby class implementation, etc. 
> > If there's a need for a more human-friendly categorization of tasks, 
> > we could consider adding it, but we shouldn't mix that up w/ 'type' 
> > which has model and class implications. In addition, a category-like 
> > 'type' field would allow us to distinguish different types of VM tasks.
> >
> As mentioned in the comments for 4, we can group task types for 
> filtering purposes, although we should still display the actual task 
> type. All we need to do to get moving on the grouping is to decide what 
> to group.

I would just hide the storage/storage volume distinction; the item and
action columns should make it clear enough to the user what that task is
about.

David