On 05/03/11 10:03, Paul Gear wrote:
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* The global storage screen (health/storage/nographs/) would make a lot more sense to me if the size of the area which was shaded was relative to the size of the storage. Making the width of the gauge grow on a logarithmic scale would make sense to me.Well, how do you scale that so it stays relevant? In 5 years time we'll all have disks 10 times the size, etc, etc.
My idea was that the entire width would be used to show the largest figure in the system and everything would just be scaled logarithmically between that and the smallest one (at, say, 10 pixels wide).
Hi folks,
I've implemented this feature, but i'm not sure i really like it that much. You can see sample screenshots and a starting patch here:
http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/observium-r2029-variable-width/
I had to limit the smallest graph size to 1/2 of the available width (in order to fit the labels inside it), which makes it significantly less useful than i thought it would be. If we could have overlapping text & graph, and have the graph scale independently without making the text cram up, it might be a little more viable. But i would have to leave that to someone with significantly more HTML/JS fu.
Does anyone think it's a really good idea? If not, i'm thinking i'll just delete this and move on to something more useful.
Thanks, Paul