Re: [PATCH] actual system time and timezone info-bar to ipfire theme

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

my few cents for this:

I'm used to see some (important) information by the *first* look, 
especially things regarding the actual 'time', 'uptime', 'load' and 
'traffic'. For example: in the past I had to search for the load graph 
to see if "something is going on", now I see it at a glance. Good. For 
me, this is an important information, other opinions may vary...

In my view, 'Date' and 'User:' are not so important, similar to the 
'Automatic update'-feature. For me it would be ok, if this would be 
static and only updated generating the current page.

This is why I originally added these wanted information by simply adding 
some ~kind of 'uptime'-command to my footer:
http://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=12177#p88508

Furthermore, I noticed that keeping a page open costs some system load, 
generated by Javascript(?).

Jm2C
Regards
Matthias


On 13.08.2015 18:33, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 15:00 +0200, Larsen wrote:
>> Hi Kim,
>>
>> I have been using this for not so long either, but I can tell you
>> that
>> patches should be sent inline (no attachment) and you have to disable
>
>
> Indeed, we can comment on an inline patch much easier. Patchwork
> however parsed the attachment correctly, so it is okay for this time.
>
>> line-wrap in your mail client.
>> Some examples: http://patchwork.ipfire.org/project/ipfire/list/
>
> On the thing itself: I saw the conversation on the IPFire forum and
> must say that I do not really get why all this information is needed on
> the web user interface. So I would like to discuss this first before
> looking closely at the patch.
>
> Time: I get that this is a good information to know just to check if
> the clock of the system is running correctly. If the timezone needs to
> be included if it is local time is debatable.
>
> Load: I do not really understand why this is an important information
> that should be on every single page of the web user interface. Most
> users do not even really understand the meaning of these values and
> often worry about numbers above a certain value they are used to.
>
> I think this could be as well below the load graph.
>
> Logged in users and uptime: There is no point in this. I wonder why you
> find this is important.
>
> So this information is automatically updated by Javascript every other
> second. This will always return a wrong time because there is obviously
> lots of latency on the network. What is wrong with just embedding the
> time when the page was generated?
>
> I just would like to hear your objective or opinion on this.
>
> Best,
> -Michael
>
>>
>> hth,
>> Lars
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:50:52 +0200, Xaver4all <xaver4all(a)gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > this is my first time using this mailing-list thing,
>> > so hopefully I do everything according to your CoC.
>> >
>> > [PATCH]
>> > add actual system time and timezone info-bar to ipfire theme.
>> > position can be configured in GUI user-settings, default is off.
>> >
>> > future reference, German discussion in forum:
>> > http://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=12177
>> >
>> > attached is a patch against the actual next branch
>> >
>> > br,
>> > Kim
>