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

[Bryan Kearney]

As eric mentioned, duplicate names are probably indicitive of an issue. 
What about leaving them there. If you name all your machines "bob" you 
are probably doing something wrong.

-- bk

On 09/12/2012 11:05 AM, Garik Khachikyan wrote:
> (about colors): and for the system being re-registered some 100s of times?
>
>
> On 12/09/12 17:01, Jason Rist wrote:
>> 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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