Re: [PATCH datacenter-manager] ui: auto-installer: allow multi-select of installation entries

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

On Tue Sep 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM CEST, Christoph Heiss wrote:
> Thanks for the review!
>
> On Fri Aug 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM CEST, Lukas Wagner wrote:
> [..]
>> I think the UX could be improved a bit. Right now, it's a bit weird that
>> *any* click on the row automatically selects it. For instance, when
>> going through entries one by one to show the "System Information", this
>> is a bit annoying, since one cannot press the 'System Information'
>> button if multiple entries are selected.
>>
>> I think this could be solved in two ways:
>>
>>   - Require the user to explicitly enable 'bulk-select', e.g. by
>>     pressing a button or ticking a check-box in the header. Before doing
>>     so, the checkbox column could be hidden
>>
>>   - Patch 'DataTable' so that only a click on the checkbox selects the
>>     entry, but not when clicking anywhere else. This probably needs to
>>     be configurable, not sure if we don't break other UIs if we do that.
>>
>>
>> I think the first option could be the preferable one.
>
> Makes sense. I'll see and will try out what works and fits better.
>
> I also guess we don't have that pattern of UI somewhere else yet, which
> could be taken as reference?

Not that I'm aware of, no :)