[katello-devel] Systems with the same name in the UI

[Jason Rist]

On Wed 12 Sep 2012 08:59:28 AM MDT, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Hey,
>
> as I mentioned on the demo, if there are multiple systems with the same
> name, in the UI list they look exactly the same. We might like to add
> something to differentiate them.
>
> The logical option is to add UUID there, but if you open up system list
> you'll see there is not plenty of space on each line and UUID is pretty
> long. That would practically mean to extend each record with one line.
>
> Another approach could be to give each system a color square that would
> be calculated as a hash from it's UUID. This works pretty well, I
> already used it in one project. If you'd hover over it, it would show a
> bubble with the UUID. Saves space and you can still visually
> differentiate among systems with the same name, but this is not good for
> color-blind people.
>
> Any other options? Recommendations?
>
> ps - I am going to create a bugzilla for this I guess.
>

Aren't most hashes fairly unique up to 6 characters?  Can we just do a 
bit of the hash with a ...? I like the color box idea too.

-J

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