Why not just make it user definable, and also allow us to make the huge "commands" area to the left much smaller? This would really help on machines with low resolution screens.
Thanks/Ed On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree. I changed the order to > > #define COLUMN_PROJECT 0 > #define COLUMN_PROGRESS 1 > #define COLUMN_CPUTIME 2 > #define COLUMN_TOCOMPLETION 3 > #define COLUMN_REPORTDEADLINE 4 > #define COLUMN_APPLICATION 5 > #define COLUMN_NAME 6 > #define COLUMN_STATUS 7 > > and also changed a couple of column titles > ("Time remaining" -> "Remaining", > "Report deadline" -> "Deadline") > > Loki Clock wrote: > > I request that the left-to-right order of the attribute lists be > > changed so that Name comes after Elapsed and Progress. > > > > One only rarely, in my experience, needs to check the name of an > > active process, but one should be able to periodically check the > > elapsed time and progress percentage without effort. The process name > > field is very long, and often items distinguishable from the most > > significant few digits, while the elapsed time and percentages are > > short. The application has not enabled dragging to change the order of > > the fields, so the order is important. The default size of the manager > > requires one to scroll horizontally to see the progress bars. There is > > no reason the window should need to take up more space than it does at > > said default size. If the process name were moved past them, one would > > still in most cases be able to identify the process from what one can > > see of it without scrolling and at the same time be able to > > conveniently check these constantly updating attributes. > > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
