Re: [PATCH datacenter-manager 3/3] ui: make the default dashboard page configurable

["Lukas Wagner" <l.wagner@proxmox.com>]

On Wed Sep 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM CEST, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>> 
>> - Have a 'My Settings' dialog in the user menu similar to PVE
>
> I would probably opt for this, since we already are missing
> some settings that would be nice here (e.g. xterm.js/novnc settings
> that we already have in PVE)
>

Seems good to me!


>> 
>> - Abandon the local setting altogether and make it a per-user setting
>>    that is stored in the backend. Might require bigger changes, since I
>>    don't think we have any good way to store per-user properties right
>>    now. Users that routinely use multiple browsers and/or devices might
>>    prefer this over a local setting.
>> 
>
> One of the biggest thing that makes me a bit hesitant to do this
> is that we don't usually have per user backend (gui) settings at all
>
> If we do want those here, I'd also like them on the PVE side
> (e.g. tree/view settings)
>

Yeah, it would definitely a much bigger undertaking. One where it
definitely makes sense to think about the cross-product implications.

I guess storing these settings in local storage *now* does not really stop
us from changing it later to a per-user, backend setting, if we think
that this would be a good idea, so no need to overthink this right now.

>> 
>> What do you think?
>
> see above, currently I'd prefer to implementing a 'my settings' window.
>
> another option would be to have the global default set in the backend
> but this clashes a bit with the permissions per view etc...
>
>> 
>> One further thing that I have noticed: If a view that is used as a
>> dashboard is deleted, we should probably fall back to the default
>> dashboard again. Otherwise user might complain about 'broken' dashboards
>> without a clear indication about what is wrong.
>
> yes that sounds sensible (at least as long as we only save it in
> the browser local storage. if we have a setting in the backend
> we could prevent deletion if anybody is using that or reset
> all users preferences)
>

Maybe the UI could then also show a small hint in the header, maybe
something like

"View xyz does not exist, showing default dashboard instead"

I guess if there is such a hint, we could also just shown an empty view
instead of the default dashboard, since then the user knows what's going
on.