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

[Aaron Lauterer]

I'll send a v2 with tooltips and for LVM as well.

On 8/21/23 10:48, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> 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.

Good idea!

> 
>>   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?

Both work for me. From a UI perspective, the tooltip is surely better. The 
downside is, that users might not notice it.

> 
>> +		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"?
> 
Sounds better than the first iteration.
>> +	    },
>>   	];
>>   
>>   	me.callParent();