[pve-devel] [RFC manager] ui: DirEdit: add hint when to enable shared

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 09.05.23 um 09:56 schrieb Aaron Lauterer:
> To hopefully reduce confusion what the 'shared' checkbox does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer at proxmox.com>
> ---
> 
> I saw it one time too many where users were a bit confused as to what
> this checkbox is for. Since we have a hard time to find a better label,
> maybe we want to put a small hint below it?
> 
> The phrasing can probably be improved upon. But I think having something
> there that can hopefully explain it enough, transporting that the
> sharing itself needs to be configured beforehand by the user, would help.
> 
>  www/manager6/storage/DirEdit.js | 4 ++++

While directory certainly is the most common one, adding a similar hint
for LVM might also be worth it.

>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/www/manager6/storage/DirEdit.js b/www/manager6/storage/DirEdit.js
> index 7e9ec44d..8c6f868a 100644
> --- a/www/manager6/storage/DirEdit.js
> +++ b/www/manager6/storage/DirEdit.js
> @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Ext.define('PVE.storage.DirInputPanel', {
>  		uncheckedValue: 0,
>  		fieldLabel: gettext('Shared'),
>  	    },
> +	    {
> +		xtype: 'displayfield',

Might be better as a tooltip or do you think that's not prominent enough?

> +		value: gettext('Enable if the path is a location that is shared between the nodes in the cluster.'),

With regards to phrasing: maybe "Enable if the underlying file system is
already shared between nodes"?

> +	    },
>  	];
>  
>  	me.callParent();