Hello, This idea sounds very promising for organizing the GUI and how to present the info.
I know it is a bit of a pain, but a couple of screen shots could help us with the details a bit. E.g. does clicking on one of the different categories on the left expand it, then when you reach the bottom, does it show the information in the right window much like a file browser? On Thursday 24 November 2005 05:12, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > HP's Data Protector is reasonably well designed on a very basic level. > More interesting/difficult functionality is very poorly designed, but at > far as interface goes, it works reasonably well. > > What they did was to include several different trees on the left side > for each category of object. Clicking on the category name (ie. media) > would do the equivalent of list pools in the right pane. Clicking on a > pool would do the equivalent of a more brief form list media pool=blah, > and clicking on a volume would show all of the info on the volume (ie. a > slightly more detailed view of list media, but with only the tape in > question). > > The same was done when delving into schedules. Filesets were lumped into > schedules, however, there was a template section that could be about the > same. > > Hope this helps. I could take screenshots, but I think the concept > should suffice. > > Lucas Di Pentima wrote: > >Hi people! > > > >I'm trying to contribute to the bacula project by making a graphical > >user interface, and I would like to ask you if you have any example of a > >well designed user interface for a backup software, so that I can get > >some ideas from it. If you can make some screenshots, they'll be very > >welcome! > > > >Best regards, > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
