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Bug 738554 - Differentiate remote from local machines in collection view
Differentiate remote from local machines in collection view
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 751710
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-10-14 23:53 UTC by Zeeshan Ali
Modified: 2016-09-20 08:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Network emblems on remote boxes' thumbnails (67.46 KB, image/png)
2015-06-29 12:54 UTC, Adrien Plazas
Details

Description Zeeshan Ali 2014-10-14 23:53:42 UTC
This is a feature often asked for by people who have lots of remote machines. We discussed this during hackfest at GUADEC 2014 and IIRC decision was that we need some kind of way to do this. One of the ideas was to simply show hostname in the subtitle.
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2015-02-04 18:24:10 UTC
The "fix" might be doing a better job autonaming the boxes. It would indeed be desirable to have the hostname prefixing the box name for remote boxes.
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2015-02-04 18:50:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> The "fix" might be doing a better job autonaming the boxes.

If all sources/brokers are added before the boxes are created, that would help but I think this is typically needed by people who already have boxes on a remote machine and they just add them to Boxes.

> It would indeed be
> desirable to have the hostname prefixing the box name for remote boxes.

Then this will be fixed. :)
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2015-02-04 18:50:39 UTC
I think it'll also be good to be able to search through hostname/ip.
Comment 4 Adrien Plazas 2015-06-29 12:54:30 UTC
Created attachment 306287 [details]
Network emblems on remote boxes' thumbnails

What about adding a "network" emblem on thumbnails of remote boxes?
Comment 5 Zeeshan Ali 2015-06-29 14:00:34 UTC
(In reply to Adrien Plazas from comment #4)
> Created attachment 306287 [details]
> Network emblems on remote boxes' thumbnails
> 
> What about adding a "network" emblem on thumbnails of remote boxes?

I think we shouldn't go overboard with emblems. :) I think we rather want page switchers and/or ready-made searches for this.
Comment 6 Zeeshan Ali 2015-08-18 16:26:35 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 751710 ***