GUI presentation of data?
(double posted, so reply to your own LUG) Suppose you have text data, which could be static or changing. How would you present the data in GUI way? Like some kind of "dashboard". From top of my head, my answer would be *HTML* and *browser*. I'm curious if there are other ways or apps.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), or even a static image from Libreoffice Calc. On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 at 12:50, William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
(double posted, so reply to your own LUG)
Suppose you have text data, which could be static or changing. How would you present the data in GUI way? Like some kind of "dashboard".
From top of my head, my answer would be *HTML* and *browser*. I'm curious if there are other ways or apps.
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vibe coding with Gemini, to SVG? On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 at 13:53, Don Tai <dontai.canada@gmail.com> wrote:
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), or even a static image from Libreoffice Calc.
On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 at 12:50, William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
(double posted, so reply to your own LUG)
Suppose you have text data, which could be static or changing. How would you present the data in GUI way? Like some kind of "dashboard".
From top of my head, my answer would be *HTML* and *browser*. I'm curious if there are other ways or apps.
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Maybe https://processing.org/ . On Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 3:54 PM Don Tai via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
vibe coding with Gemini, to SVG?
On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 at 13:53, Don Tai <dontai.canada@gmail.com> wrote:
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), or even a static image from Libreoffice Calc.
On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 at 12:50, William Park via Talk < talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
(double posted, so reply to your own LUG)
Suppose you have text data, which could be static or changing. How would you present the data in GUI way? Like some kind of "dashboard".
From top of my head, my answer would be *HTML* and *browser*. I'm curious if there are other ways or apps.
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* I know about *cockpit*, so I thought I could modify the layout. Too much work! * I know about *kdialog*, so I thought I could extend to get some kind of table, where cell can be whatever. Too much work! * Google AI says *Kirigami.Dialog* is modern way. Then, it says something about *QML*. * I think this is the direction... On 2026-04-27 12:50, William Park via Talk wrote:
(double posted, so reply to your own LUG)
Suppose you have text data, which could be static or changing. How would you present the data in GUI way? Like some kind of "dashboard".
From top of my head, my answer would be *HTML* and *browser*. I'm curious if there are other ways or apps.
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On 2026-04-27 12:50, William Park via Talk wrote:
(double posted, so reply to your own LUG)
Suppose you have text data, which could be static or changing. How would you present the data in GUI way? Like some kind of "dashboard".
From top of my head, my answer would be *HTML* and *browser*. I'm curious if there are other ways or apps.
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I DO like HTML and browser for these. For each of 12 systems in my network, I have Green/Yellow/Red light indications for ping, time, load, mem utilization, temperature, disk, nfs, http server and dedicated task status. I organize these in a grid, systems vertically and monitored items horizontally. I have the status update every 10 minutes and use hovers to get the specific numbers. I can squeeze all of this into one pithy web page. I also like pictures. I track per phase power utilization in my home, and temperature/humidity in outside and on each floor on an hourly/weekly/monthly basis. I use rrdtool and librrdtool-oo-perl for these which handle all the heavy lifting of data storage, missed data collection, time period organization and image generation. Of course, if you have ever used MRTG, you are pretty familiar with the sort of imagery generated by these. The one feature I don't have is alerts, a la emails. It wouldn't be to hard to add, but I don't want the system bugging me, Glancing at the status page from time to time is good enough. -- Michael Galea
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