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BoincTasks For Window, Mac & Linux => Wish List => Topic started by: Pepo on November 18, 2010, 09:31:29 AM

Title: Relative mode for RS bars
Post by: Pepo on November 18, 2010, 09:31:29 AM
As the number of projects on a computer rises, the width of the widest bars in "Share %" column, which symbolize the single projects' Resource Share, effectively approaches zero pixels. The narrow ones were indefinitely thin already a long ago...

If some new optional mode would be introduced to size them not absolutely to the 0-100% width, but to maximize the widest one and the narrower ones (on the same computer) relatively to it, the functionality might be again useful even with larger number of projects. (I understand that the bar width would be not comparable across computers anymore, but therefore 'optional'.)
Title: Re: Relative mode for RS bars
Post by: fred on November 18, 2010, 03:53:24 PM
Quote from: Pepo on November 18, 2010, 09:31:29 AM
As the number of projects on a computer rises, the width of the widest bars in "Share %" column, which symbolize the single projects' Resource Share, effectively approaches zero pixels. The narrow ones were indefinitely thin already a long ago...

If some new optional mode would be introduced to size them not absolutely to the 0-100% width, but to maximize the widest one and the narrower ones (on the same computer) relatively to it, the functionality might be again useful even with larger number of projects. (I understand that the bar width would be not comparable across computers anymore, but therefore 'optional'.)
Someone who is supporting this.
Title: Re: Relative mode for RS bars
Post by: jjwhalen on November 19, 2010, 12:42:18 AM
Quote from: fred on November 18, 2010, 03:53:24 PM
Quote from: Pepo on November 18, 2010, 09:31:29 AM
As the number of projects on a computer rises, the width of the widest bars in "Share %" column, which symbolize the single projects' Resource Share, effectively approaches zero pixels. The narrow ones were indefinitely thin already a long ago...

If some new optional mode would be introduced to size them not absolutely to the 0-100% width, but to maximize the widest one and the narrower ones (on the same computer) relatively to it, the functionality might be again useful even with larger number of projects. (I understand that the bar width would be not comparable across computers anymore, but therefore 'optional'.)
Someone who is supporting this.

Personally, I don't find the color bars here that useful anyway (unlike CPU% and Progress%).  Since I've always supported multiple projects, I've always preferred to look at the numbers directly for Resource Share.

Sorry, Peter.
Title: Re: Relative mode for RS bars
Post by: Pepo on November 19, 2010, 09:00:47 AM
Quote from: jjwhalen on November 19, 2010, 12:42:18 AM
Quote from: fred on November 18, 2010, 03:53:24 PM
Someone who is supporting this.
Personally, I don't find the color bars here that useful anyway (unlike CPU% and Progress%).  Since I've always supported multiple projects, I've always preferred to look at the numbers directly for Resource Share.

Sorry, Peter.
No problem, as with everything, no sense creating/building/implementing something what will barely be used by anyone.

We are here to find bugs and raise ideas...