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Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Post by jshmrsn »

jshmrsn wrote: post #3

Looks pretty nice overall for sure. But, I would give the feedback that the non-uniform scaling of UI controls is a very uncommon animation behavior, and will feel out of place on any OS that I’m familiar with. In general, the animations feel a bit over eager and in the “for show” tuning instead of “clarify what state transition is happening” tuning. Generally when scaling large panels like that, you’ll want to not s…

Late edit: By zero transparency, I meant zero opacity. I.e., it'll start fading as it approaches approaches 100% scale from %60 scale. And not clarify, by non-uniform scaling, I'm referring to elements stretched in the X axis more or less than they are in the Y axis.

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

#12

Post by xcambar »

monsieurbanana wrote: post #6
Kaze404 wrote: post #5

It took me embarrassingly long to realize this isn't a software for managing a Zoo.

I think this is where I first heard about Zookeeper: http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

This is great!

Make me laugh and educate me at once? I'm sold!

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

#13

Post by clangy »

billfruit wrote: post #7

The small amout of time I spent with JavaFX was productive, I wish it was more popular. It was a viable alternative to QT for cross platform desktop GUI apps, but I do get a feeling that its future is uncertain with it getting unbundled from the Oracle JDK. I don't really get why AWT and Swing get to be first class citizens of "core" Java while JavaFX which is the best approach to build GUIs in Java cannot be.

Just curious, what kind of software were you building with JavaFX? Was it for work or a side-project?

I've been interested in JavaFX for a while. As you mentioned, the technology actually seems quite good. But I barely ever see or hear about it being used in the wild which worries me.

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Post by billfruit »

clangy wrote: post #13
billfruit wrote: post #7

The small amout of time I spent with JavaFX was productive, I wish it was more popular. It was a viable alternative to QT for cross platform desktop GUI apps, but I do get a feeling that its future is uncertain with it getting unbundled from the Oracle JDK. I don't really get why AWT and Swing get to be first class citizens of "core" Java while JavaFX which is the best approach to build GUIs in Java cannot be.

Just curious, what kind of software were you building with JavaFX? Was it for work or a side-project? I've been interested in JavaFX for a while. As you mentioned, the technology actually seems quite good. But I barely ever see or hear about it being used in the wild which worries me.

It was for a side project. At work using JavaFX is of doubtful viability since hardly any developers seem familiar with it as opposed to QT.

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

#15

Post by notum »

benreesman wrote: post #8

It’s nice to see some ZK stuff on the front page. It’s not written in Go or part of Docker’s story or any other headline-grabbing thing, but it’s rock solid as these things go and is much more widely used (especially at companies with legitimate scaling problems) than you’d think from reading HN.

This made me think of what the ultimate HN story title would be?

Uber's shelved self-driving car LIDAR firmware written in Rust now available as a Docker package with a Kubernetes deployment script. Available on GitHub from an unknown FaceBook leak.

Or...

Why I stopped programming and turned to raising goats?

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

#17

Post by Dobbs »

benreesman wrote: post #8

It’s nice to see some ZK stuff on the front page. It’s not written in Go or part of Docker’s story or any other headline-grabbing thing, but it’s rock solid as these things go and is much more widely used (especially at companies with legitimate scaling problems) than you’d think from reading HN.

All of my experience says otherwise. I don't know the specifics because I'm not actively working on it but ZK is the cause of a lot of problems at current company.

Additionally many years ago when I was investigating Zookeeper at previous company there were a number of fairly critical bugs that were unfixed in the mainline branch after having been reported years prior and patches provided. The solution was to find the Netflix or Etsy (I think?) fork and use those because they had merged in patches to fix things.

We ended up going with raft because while it might not be as well tested as zookeeper it was actively being worked on so issues we would run into would have a chance of getting fixed.

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Post by vran_dev »

jshmrsn wrote: post #11
jshmrsn wrote: post #3

Looks pretty nice overall for sure. But, I would give the feedback that the non-uniform scaling of UI controls is a very uncommon animation behavior, and will feel out of place on any OS that I’m familiar with. In general, the animations feel a bit over eager and in the “for show” tuning instead of “clarify what state transition is happening” tuning. Generally when scaling large panels like that, you’ll want to not s…

Late edit: By zero transparency, I meant zero opacity. I.e., it'll start fading as it approaches approaches 100% scale from %60 scale. And not clarify, by non-uniform scaling, I'm referring to elements stretched in the X axis more or less than they are in the Y axis.

It's a very useful suggestions, thank you. I will make improvements based on your suggestions in future (i am not a professional ui developer, so i really need suggestions like this to do improvements)

thank you again

Best regards

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