Frequently I’m finding myself trying to restart a slave, but I end up restarting the machine instead. I feel like the remote control area could have different icons for each type of control, or be seperated by color-coding. This would help to restart slaves without having to worry about accidentally rebooting a machine (or 20). For example, there are 4 commands that have the same icon and start with the word “Restart.”
Sure, we can try to find alternatives. Would having the slave-based and machine-based commands in a submenu help at all?
I like having them all available in the same menu, but I am just having difficulty seeing which one to push without second guessing myself. Either way works for me. Even just having a larger separating horizontal line or some white space would help out distinguishing restarting the slave, the machine, after task completion, etc.
Colored icons would definitely get my vote btw.
I think you would want to keep the horizontal separator line the same as that’s the style throughout the application. Sub-menu’s means yet more mouse navigating/movement.
More whitespace could be one option between the various sections. Coloured icons might work quite well actually. It’s potentially provides more contrast and depending on the colours used, causes the eye to be drawn to them if the colour is used selectively? Like GREEN for the start (good) operations and RED for the stop/restart/shutdown (bad) operations? All other menu entries remain UNCOLOURED. Also, maybe a special highlighter colour, which is GREEN or RED which highlights the entire LINE to make a user double-check themselves on the BAD operations? Probably several hundred more ways to do something here 