I strongly disagree. I don't see any reason to make this change, and it will make the "task Control" section unnecessarily wide, further limiting the width available for the Tasks list, which is already too narrow to fit all the data displayed.
Changing it to a checkbox doesn't satisfy his objection that it has a different context from the other items in the group. That would require placing it somewhere else, outside the "Commands" group, not necessarily making something other than a button. But I don't feel that his statement about context is of significant concern. In short, I don't see any problem with the current arrangement. It would be helpful to see the entire original email from Steven to see the context of his comments. -- Charlie Fenton [email protected] BOINC / SETI@home Macintosh & Windows Programmer Space Sciences Laboratory UC Berkeley On Jun 17, 2015, at 3:17 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on Steven's comments, I propose that we > > - replace the "Show active tasks" / "Show all tasks" botton with a checkbox > "[x] Show only active tasks > > - Remove the word "Commands" > > - Put "..." after Show graphics and Properties to indicate that they open a > new window. > > - Group Show graphics and Properties (which show info) > separately from Suspend and Abort (which operate on the task). > > - Enable Suspend and Resume if a group of tasks is selected > where some are suspended and some are not. > > Comments? > > -- David > > On 15-Jun-2015 3:41 PM, Steven Bailey wrote: >> >> Tasks tab >> · “Show active tasks” and “Show all tasks” have different contexts >> from the other buttons in the “Commands” groupbox. >> · “Show active tasks” and “Show all tasks” are different names for >> the same binary switch. Some of the buttons in the “Commands” groupbox are >> switches, and some open a new window, but they all look alike. >> · “Commands” is programmer jargon. >> · “Suspend” and “Resume” are disabled if a group of tasks are >> selected where at least one task is suspended and at least one task is not >> suspended. >> Tools/Computing preferences dialog >> · “0 means no restriction” means also, “100 means totally >> restricted”. The only restriction that is predictable is 50; 50.1 and 49.9 >> are ambiguous. >> · “On multiprocessor systems …” could be a list of processors and an >> election of which ones to use, instead of a percentage where 1%, 2%, and 33% >> mean the same thing on a machine with 3 CPUs (I’m guessing; I don’t know, >> and I’m expert, and I’ve looked it up on the message boards). Fixing this >> also solves an identified task of allowing election of which CPUs are used. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
