Modify cards on Overview page

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Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.

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Modify cards on Overview page #17903

Open alanmilinovic opened 1 year ago

alanmilinovic commented 1 year ago

Please add distribution, kernel version and processor to System information card, this should be the most relevant information in my opinion. I don't see relevant to have Asset tag and Machine ID, maybe to move it under "View hardware details" page.

Example: Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel version: Linux 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10110U CPU @ 2.10G

For Usage card, I would add CPU temp. Would be super usefull.

What are your thoughts?

garrett commented 1 year ago

Firstly, just to be clear: What version of Cockpit are you running?

Distribution is already on the overview page, and has been for quite some time.

People with many systems do actually care about the model and asset tag, as it's a way to identify which machine they're on, hence being on the overview page.

Why is kernel version relevant (to you; I'd like to hear your opinion)? If there's an update, it would show on the overview and software updates page (such as in the above screenshot).

System information page has details such as the processor and various chipsets:

alanmilinovic commented 1 year ago

I am using latest version 279.

You are right, distribution is already there, my apologies.

Model and Asset tag is relevant but user friendly name (hostname) is the one that identifies you where you are more, so as suggested I would move it to details page to release 2 rows for other information like kernel version and architecture that is in my opinion more relevant. But yea, could be just personal preference, that's why initial idea was to have somehow customized current properties showed in cards or to add new cards in addition without creating entire new plugin.