Re: NessusClient: Planned improvements (monitor dialog)

On Friday 20 April 2007 00:10, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 02:02, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> > I'm not opposed to it, but let's define a final design before
> > anything is done -- you talk about tree view and I don't see where
> > you want to fit them, etc...
>
> a GTK TreeView can have a list or a tree model.
> For a first step I planned to use a list model for the monitor dialog.
> Eventually a tree model could be used. But that's beyond the currently
> implemented concept and I could imagine different ways how
> this might work. Probably it is best to ask for some user feedback before
> beginning to plan this.
>
> However, even with a list model, the TreeView has some advantages over
> the current implementation:
>
> - not using deprecated methods anymore
> - clearer code due to MVC
> - progress bar additionally shows %tage
> - vertical space consumption much lower
> - personal opinion: looks nicer (more modern)
> - sortable columns (not yet used in my code. Should I implement
>   that clicking on a head line makes this the sorted column,
>   a second click make it sorted reversed? This would be a pretty
>   common behaviour today in many GUIs.)
>
> Except for the the sortable-question my sample already shows
> the final (list) design. Some beautification remains of course
> and the old widget needs to be removed, naturally.
>
> I do not expect instability due to my changes because actually
> the same hooks for communication with Nessus Server are
> just called in a different way.

OK to proceed based on these thoughts?

Best

	Jan

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