Technical Meeting 08/03/2006 1:15PM EDT
Agenda
| Item | People | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geveci | Team Status |
| 2 | Richardson | New vs. Open vs. Connect |
| 3 | Shead | Server "pings" |
| 4 |
Action Items
Discussion
The team discussed what the semantics of the File > New menu should be. Currently, it is interpreted (loosely) as "new session", and its behavior is equivalent to Servers > Disconnect. One proposal was that "New" should be brought more in line with Microsoft Office behavior, where it means "create new object" and the File > New menu displays a dialog allowing the user to pick what they want to create. In ParaView this might be a list including "new server connection", "new source", "new filter", etc. Eventually, the team decided to remove File > New altogether, to avoid confusion over semantics.
Tim raised the possibility of adding API to the server manager to "ping" a server (find out if it's running without connecting to it), and got shot down.
