On 03/28/2013 12:55 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 03/27/2013 05:37 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
On 03/26/2013 06:51 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 03/26/2013 07:05 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
This update includes changes to both the glade-3 ui and
the releated python code (createnet.py). There have
been some significant changes made to both files for
IPv6 support and some additional capabilities.
This update includes the fix so color will work in the
network creation wizard.
The objective was to get the functionality implemented and
some future effort may be needed to "improve" the
python code.
Signed-off-by: Gene Czarcinski <gene@xxxxxxxxx>
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ui/vmm-create-net.ui | 1518
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
virtManager/createnet.py | 612 +++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 1583 insertions(+), 547 deletions(-)
A couple bits here:
- The color of the createnet header changed: it used to be black.
What's wrong with blue? ... OK, it is back to black again.
Blue is the color of the other wizards, but the createnet wizard needs to be
really redesigned to have a more consistent look before switching the color.
I have tried to be consistent but that does not mean that I am. If you
can point me to some good examples and/or guidelines, I will give it a shot.
For now, I have completed redoing all of the gui and wizard stuff
incorporating your comments. Just before wrpaping it up and packaging
the patches for submit, I did one more test: create, start, stop, and
then delete/undefine a network ... everything worked fine until the
delete ... the network was deleted but I got an exception when
net_select() tried to access the just deleted network??? This happens
with some net-definitions but not with others??
- There's horizontal separators added everywhere, they are spaced weirdly and
don't add anything. Please remove.
Just following what was there already. Trying to get things to look good and
not spread out. glade-3 is helpful at times and a real PITA at other times.
Hmm, I didn't think there were pre-existing separators, sorry.
There were some ... most have been deleted. There are still some that
make sense (at least to me).
- Many vbox, like on the 'Name' screen, have a ton of empty entries now. This
doesn't affect the visible UI but is clutter when working in glade. Please
shrink them down to only the required sizes.
OK, I got rid of the extras here and elsewhere.
- Check the spacing here:
http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/virt-manager/create-net-spacing.png . The
pre-existing elements don't expand, the added bits do. Also the DNS name field
extends across the whole UI. It should probably only be 20 chars long max.
Twenty characters sounds reasonable but in real life it can be longer. I am
not sure how to constrain the gtkentry to just 20 characters or to limit the
display from consuming the entire line. I will keep "testing" to see if I can
find a way.
Text entries have a 'width in chars' field which can be in glade. Even if it's
capped at 20, a user can still enter longer text, it will just scroll to the
right. 20 might be too small, so feel free to play with it.
Did not know that. Thank you. Somehow I got the gtkentry boxes to a
small, reasonable size without using this feature. I will need to go
back and make sure they are setup correctly.
Glade can be tricky for some of the subtle things, so make a best effort and
if there are still some things you can't get right I'll fix them up before
committing.
I would really like to know/understand how to do some of this with glade-3 and
the gui. Even with google being your friend, available documentation is
limited or does not address what I am trying to do. The last thing I want to
do is to dive into the implementing glade/gtk/gdk code to see what can be done
and how to do it.
Yes this stuff is tricky. Here's the jist
- For that particular case, you likely need to play with the horizontal and
vertical fill/expand settings for every element in the table. For example on
that forwarding page, try and make new elements use the same set of
expand/fill values. Generally you don't want anything to vertically expand.
Also check xalign and yalign
Indeed ... that has been most of today and a bit of yesterday.
- For getting spacing right and for everything to fit nicely, really just
focus on spacing of containers like boxes, tables, etc. The main content of a
page should be a vbox, every chunk of UI will probably be its own box _within_
that top level vbox. If you add any boxes or tables, make sure their 'spacing'
value is consistent with the rest of the layout, usually 3 pixels for table
column/row spacing, 6 for hbox/vbox, and 12 for the global vbox.
- If you want to indent an entire chunk of UI like a table, don't tweak
spacing/alignment on individual elements, stick the whole thing in an
'alignment' widget, and use that to indent it all with one setting.
- Sometimes there doesn't seem to be any way to get an element to NOT expand,
like a small combo box in a table with a longer widget. You can shrink it, by
sticking the widget in a 2 item box, set it to not expand, stick an
'alignment' in the other entry, and have _that_ expand.
But as I said, don't drive yourself crazy with it, just make a best attempt
and I can try and fix up some of the weird bits as an add on patch. It can be
quite frustrating getting this stuff right.
While I might have not done things the "right way" given your comments
above (and I will go back and check what I have done), most of it
"looks good" at least to me. There are a few things you might not be
aware of such as the Route-Via and also that a valid definition can have
neither IPv4 or IPv6 and thus both are hidden.
Pending "issues" --
1. The bug I found when some networks are deleted (this is a problem
somewhere in host.py).
2. It is not clear what the settings are for isolated versus routed. I
believe I understand it for IPv6 but need to verify some stuff for
IPv4. When no addresses are specified, then it is truly isolated. But,
if an address is specified but no <forward> is in the definition, what
does than mean? At the very least it means that dnsmasq will be started
as a DNS on that network.
3. Under 0.9.4, the "Hint" message/label under the IP address entry-box
was fixed in place. Under the gtk3.2 branch is moves if you stretch the
window. This may be a feature an
d not correctable.
4. I really wanted to put the Domain Name entry on the Name Page along
with the Network (interface) Name entry. IMO, the Network Name entry
MUST have the focus when the page comes up. With the second entry, I
could not get this to happen ... the focus was always the Domain Name
... at least the first time the wizard was run during a wirt-manager
execution. Additional running of the wizard resulted in the focus being
whatever was the focus the last time the wizard was run. Since this
"hurt", my solution was to move it to what is now the Miscellaneous
Settings Page (formally Forwarding).
Although I am much interested in getting the IPv6 support into
virt-manager, this has also been a learning experience for me with
respect to python and glade-3 (the last time I ran glade was when it was
just plain, old glade). So far I have been positively impressed with both.
Gene
Thanks,
Cole
Please squash this patch together with patch #1, the UI changes aren't much
useful in isolation.
Also, for testing UI it's quite useful to use the libvirt test driver if you
haven't:
./virt-manager --connect test:///`pwd`/tests/testdriver.xml
The UI has a couple quirks:
- There's a separator between the IPv4 config and IPv6 config, I'd remove it.
- Please hide the entire IPv6 frame if the network doesn't have any IPv6 bits.
This is similar to how the interface details panel works. The testdriver
should help show all the interface details bits
- If you have a suite of networks you are using to test the UI, please also
add them to tests/testdriver.xml so I can use them as well. It's as simple as
just copy+pasting the entire <network> XML into that file, in the same section
as the rest of the <network> instances.
Thanks,
Cole
I have all the changes done but I want to try an polish this a bit so it will
be at least a day before I resubmit.
BTW, I figured out host to run the tests ... it was obvious once I understood
what was happening.
Gene
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