Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Maren Purves <[email protected]> · Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:18:24 -1000

On 09/18/17 02:59, Kasemir, Kay wrote:

It's generally best to not use the "Open in new window", "Open in new
tab" option at all. Just as with a web browser, opening new pages is
often not helpful, it just leads to a cluttered sceen. In fact some
web browsers consider "popups" a virus and disable them by default.
Just leave the default options, so a new display replaces the
original display, and users can use back/forward to navigate back &
forth. If users really, at one time, need to open a display as a new
display, they can do that via the context menu or by holding Ctrl
and/or Shift when clicking the button, again similar to a web browser
where ctrl-click on a link opens that link as a separate tab.

People in operations quite often want to see everything at the same
time. Yes, you may run into real estate problems (I do even on 3
monitors), but having information at hand is more important than
screen aesthetics when you're running things. Replacing the status
of e.g. the secondary mirror of a telescope with weather information
that you also need to look at isn't an option (not to mention status
of telescope and instruments).

Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System