Re: [webmin-devel] [RFC] replace "Standby timeout" field in edit_hdparm.cgi with a "slider"

[Jean-Christophe D. <jc...@tr...>]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 09:42:42 Jean-Christophe Dubois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The input field for the "Standby timeout" is not very user friendly. Its
> value varies from 0 to 255 without any hint of what means each value.
>
> So I propose to replace this simple field with a javascript based slider
> that will describe in full word what the timeout value really is. It is
> easier to have a timeout value of "5 minutes" rather than the corresponding
> 60 field value.
>
> So I Incorporated the work of Erik Arvidsson at
> http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/slider/slider.html. His code is under "Apache
> License, Version 2.0" so I assume there should be no problem to incorporate
> it in webmin.

To give you an idea, I attached a snapshot of the webmin frame to this email. 
Let me know what you think of it.

JC

> Maybe these javascript classes could be incorporated more globally in
> webmin so that they become a common services and can be used by other
> modules.
>
> Regards
>
> JC