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Option to only show running Freight in timeline #2386

Closed jessesuen closed 2 weeks ago

jessesuen commented 1 month ago

Proposed Feature

One simple UI feature I thought of while filing https://github.com/akuity/kargo/issues/2385, was a UI option to only show running freight in the UI.

Motivation

User may not care to see non-running freight, or there is just so much freight to sift through.

Suggested Implementation

Show a checkbox or toggle to only show running freight.

jessesuen commented 1 month ago

When hiding non-running freight, we should still show some indicator/placeholder in the freight timeline that shows how many freight are between the running Freight. e.g:

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The placeholder could also be clicked on to expand and show the hidden freight.

krancour commented 1 month ago

This is similar to something else @rbreeze added recently where old Freight, no longer in use can be hidden -- but that obviously doesn't help much if the situation is more that you have a long string of Freight that aren't in use, book-ended by two that still are.

So I think the existing binary choice of show all / hide old could become a three-way choice of show all / hide old / hide unused.

rbreeze commented 1 month ago

I've been thinking about this since I introduced the "hide old freight" feature... and I think we can actually just change the "hide old freight" button behavior to hide unused freight. In other words, it will still be a binary choice between show all and hide unused.

@krancour, @jessesuen thoughts? It seems rare that someone would want to hide just old freight but not unused intervening freight.

To clarify, it isn't any more technically difficult to make this a ternary option; my motivation behind replacing rather than adding is primarily to keep the UI simpler and free of cruft.

krancour commented 1 month ago

It seems rare that someone would want to hide just old freight but not unused intervening freight.

I feel uncertain of this.

Let F be newest and A be oldest.

I have F in dev, E and D currently unused, C in prod, and B and A currently unused.

E and D seem to me that they may still be candidates for promotion into some Stage(s) after dev, up to an including prod, whereas B and A seem like Freight I am just pretty much done with.

While I favor simplicity, I think we probably do need to accommodate all of:

  1. Show me everything
  2. Show me just what's in use (hide unused)
  3. Show me what seems most relevant (hide old)