[pdm-devel] [RFC PATCH datacenter-manager 5/5] ui: main menu: use different icon for pbs remotes

[Lukas Wagner]

On Thu Dec 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM CET, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> In most of the UI, we use 'server' for remotes, 'building' for PVE nodes
> and 'building-o' for PBS nodes.
>
> In the main menu we don't have the information if a remote is a single
> node or not for PVE, but we know if it's PBS. So show the 'building-o'
> for PBS remotes.
>
> This makes it possible to see which kind of remote it is before
> clicking, and wihtout inventing a custom naming scheme.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>
> ---
> We can of course choose different icons here if wanted, e.g. 'floppy-o'
> for pbs remotes?
>
> Maybe the best option would be to create some custom product icons that
> we could use here and maybe for the favicon, etc. ?

Yeah, I think having product-specific icons would be great in the
long-term, in fact I only recently talked to Thomas about the very same
topic.

In the meanwhile, I think using this different icon you used in this
patch is a good stop-gap that should help UX a bit.

Reviewed-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner at proxmox.com>