Hi Chris, On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:57 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote: > Hey gang, I'm working on a redo of the system-logviewer GUI. Right now, > it's all done by hand which isn't really the ideal situation. So as > part of my attempts to learn glade and GTK in general, I've been working > on a mockup of system-logviewer. I'm working on making sure it complies > to the interface guidelines as well, but I've been told there are people > on this list more expert than me at that step. So, I've posted a bunch > of screenshots of the thing in glade as well as the .glade file itself > to the following: > > http://people.redhat.com/clumens/system-logviewer/ > > None of the buttons are hooked up to do anything (well, some of them > might close windows) and no log files get displayed. This is just a UI > workup. Please let me know what you think and if there are any > significant problems with it so far. I'd say that the user needn't know about a distinction between a warning and alert list. I'd rather have a notification list (visible and in the program logic) where users can specify the level (e.g. alert or warning) and when it should be notifying which consists of: - log files/sources relevant (i.e. one, many or all log files) - pattern(s*) to match for which can be search engine like (single words or expressions like "word1 AND word2 AND (word3 OR word4)" or regexes for complicated stuff - probably a description, i.e. a warning could say "database volume on host foo is nearly full" when encountering specific patterns, handy when you want technically not so inclined people to make some meaning out of a warning. If you could use variables from regex patterns to incorporate in these messages (i.e. the hostname in the example), I'd award bonus points for it ;-). Another idea is to do what I saw years ago on a system log viewer on a mainframe where warnings and alerts have special colors and stay glued in the list when they have scrolled to the top and only vanish when acknowledged. I don't know whether it's feasible to mimic the exact behaviour of that list widget (well, probably "tidget" because it was on a 3270 terminal ;-), but we could at least have a list of unacknowledged alerts and warnings on top of the normal list. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- Fedora-config-list mailing list Fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-config-list