From 72d05e54de4a051148578d8445ad4527550052ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tv Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 01:16:41 +0100 Subject: dashboard: neater graph title & legend --- docs/dashboard.md | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/dashboard.md') diff --git a/docs/dashboard.md b/docs/dashboard.md index 25bcfe8..a9e4567 100644 --- a/docs/dashboard.md +++ b/docs/dashboard.md @@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ the whole width; drag the space right of the map back to bring it again. A double-click there sets that space back to its default. The sizes are kept in the browser, for the next time the page is opened. -The `▾` before a box's title collapses it to its title (`▸` opens it again). A -collapsed box isn't drawn at all, so it costs the browser nothing while the node -updates; opened, it shows what's current. The open boxes take the room the collapsed -ones leave: in the right column they share it as before (the peers take all of it -when they're the only one open); the map collapsed, the right column takes the width. +The `▾` before a box's title collapses it to its title (`▸` opens it again); the map +always stays open. A collapsed box isn't drawn at all, so it costs the browser nothing +while the node updates; opened, it shows what's current. The open boxes take the room +the collapsed ones leave: in the right column they share it as before (the peers take +all of it when they're the only one open). The right column all collapsed keeps its width: its titles stay at the top, with a hint that dragging the space beside them to the right hides the column. Which boxes are collapsed is kept in the browser too. @@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ legend and the sliders greyed meanwhile); the choice is kept in the browser. A label on the map that changes, a round trip or a node's name, breathes once: it glows around its new text and fades (not where the system asks for reduced motion). -`links: live` beside the box's title says the members tell this node of their links' +The map's controls are at its top right, over the map as the legend is (below): +`links: live` says the members tell this node of their links' changes as they happen. Clicked, it's `links: every 30 s`: the members are only asked every 30 s, which costs the swarm fewer messages and leaves the map up to 30 s behind (this node's own links stay current). It's the node's choice, for every page open on @@ -125,8 +126,8 @@ it, until clicked again or the node restarts. The legend, over the top of the map, names the transports that appear; its contents are on an underlay of their own shape, as the map's labels, so they read over what is -under them, and the map is dragged through it as anywhere else. `hide legend` beside -the box's title hides it (`show legend` brings it back); the map stays as it is. +under them, and the map is dragged through it as anywhere else. `hide legend`, among the +map's controls, hides it (`show legend` brings it back); the map stays as it is. `layout: static`, beside it, is the default: nodes move only when the map is laid out (below). A click switches to `layout: dynamic`: each measured link is as -- cgit v1.3.1