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Improve UI Labels


Improve UI Labels  

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  1. 1. I would like:

    • Improved labels and icons.
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    • Just improved labels.
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    • No change, it is fine as it is.
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The labels for computers in the UI are very short (7 characters plus 3 dots). In corporate environments naming conventions may mean that computers are indistinguishable. I suggest the following improvements:

  1. Allow the user to enter a custom nickname of 10 characters.
  2. Display the full name in a pop-up when hovering over.
  3. Have different icons or colours for different operating systems and an indicator showing which is the current master.
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All good suggestions. In fact, given Mac typical naming schemes and potential DNS namespace collisions (e.g. DNS.domain.one, DNS.domain.two), 20 characters might be even better.

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  • 3 months later...

Is it soon yet? ;)

I appreciate that a rename/alias feature requires a bit of work, but a hover over which displays the full name should be a quick interim fix.

P.S. I noticed that the master indicator got added in v.2.0.3 :D

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Nick Bolton
34 minutes ago, IT Troll said:

Is it soon yet? ;)

We realized this needs a lot of behind the scenes work (i.e. separating hostnames from the config) which is a big change. To be honest, it may not be until 2.1.

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10 minutes ago, Nick Bolton said:

We realized this needs a lot of behind the scenes work (i.e. separating hostnames from the config) which is a big change. To be honest, it may not be until 2.1.

I figured that might be the case. But a hover over pop-up of the full name wouldn't be so tricky and would help out those with long and indistinguishable hostnames.

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IT Troll

It's not quite a pop-up tooltip. But if you right-click on a computer you get some options which do feature the full computer name.

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