Swapping the vertex functions to a right-click menu would promote drill-down consistency across components.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Andy LoPresto <alopre...@apache.org> wrote: > I’ll throw in that while I’ve never tried to double click anything other > than a process group in the UI (so Lee’s information was welcome), Matt > Burgess’ explanation of “drill down” is extremely intuitive to me and is > exactly how my brain would reconcile the difference between double clicking > a process group vs. a processor. > > Andy LoPresto > alopre...@apache.org > *alopresto.apa...@gmail.com <alopresto.apa...@gmail.com>* > PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 > > On Oct 24, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Russell Bateman <russell.bateman@ > perfectsearchcorp.com> wrote: > > I'm sort of a new user, but I surely second Matt's expressed view. It's > how I conceptualize it too. > > (My two cents.) > > Russ > > On 10/24/2016 09:03 AM, Rob Moran wrote: > > I think the logic Matt B described would make a lot of sense to experienced > users, but it is changing behavior of the action and that *could* confuse > new users. > > But as Lee brought up it is already being used differently, so it very well > could be appreciated as learned behavior. > > It would be nice to expose common actions (like configure) on the faces of > components so they are only a single click away. However, it would be tough > to add more to them given current layouts. > > Rob > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Matt Gilman <matt.c.gil...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Certainly not the first time this has been brought up... in fact, there's > already a JIRA for it [1]. Use of double click on the connection is a great > counter point for consistency between the components. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1580 > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Lee Laim <lee.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Don't forget about connection behavior. > > Double-click on a connection places a movable vertex on the connection. > Double-click on a vertex deletes it. > > Very intuitive once you realize it's there. > > Lee > > > On Oct 24, 2016, at 8:21 AM, McDermott, Chris Kevin (MSDU - > > STaTS/StorefrontRemote) <chris.mcderm...@hpe.com> wrote: > > I like this, Matt. It has often find myself double clicking to try to > > configure, or view configuration. It just seems natural. > > > Chris McDermott > > Remote Business Analytics > STaTS/StoreFront Remote > HPE Storage > Hewlett Packard Enterprise > Mobile: +1 978-697-5315 > > > > On 10/24/16, 9:50 AM, "Matt Burgess" <mattyb...@apache.org> wrote: > > +1 for avoiding confusion or changing existing behavior, but I > > think a > > good compromise is to leave the Configure option on both context > > menus > > (right-click, e.g.) and add the double-click behavior to the > > Processor > > to open the configuration dialog. In that case, the default > (double-click) option for both Processors and Process Groups is no > longer "nothing" and "Enter Group" respectively; rather it is > conceptually something like "Drill-down". For PGs drill-down is > > Enter > > Group, for Processors you can't drill down any further than the > > config > > dialog, so that becomes the default action for double-click. > > Thoughts? Thanks, > Matt > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Villard > <pierre.villard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yep, that's a good point and I agree we should avoid confusion with > different behaviors depending of the components. > > Thanks Matt! > > Pierre > > 2016-10-24 13:44 GMT+02:00 Matt Gilman <matt.c.gil...@gmail.com>: > > Pierre, > > Currently the double click action is used to enter a Process Group. > There's been discussion in the past on this mailing about possibly > > using it > > to configure. My only hesitation there would be the inconsistency > > between > > action on the different components. Unless of course we also switch > > the > > action for entering a group. Then I start to worry about confusing > > the > > user > > with changing up the existing behavior too much. > > Matt > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 24, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Pierre Villard < > > pierre.villard...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is any reason why the double click action > > is > > not > > used in the UI? I think this could be a nice shortcut to access > "Configure/View configuration" view from elements on the canvas. > > Thoughts? > > Pierre > > > > >
