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Usage Of gcylc.rc At The MetOffice

Overview

• Users:
  • ~700 users in total.
  • ~150-200 simultaneous users at any one time.
  • 76 users have gcylc.rc files.
  • There isn’t much customisation of gcylc at present.
  • A lot of people are hard-coding the default settings.
• Views:
  • The most changed setting is initial views people like to customise this.
  • People who work with large suites often disable the graph setting.
  • There isn’t much love for the dot view.
• Visual impairment:
  • Two users increased the size of the task icons.
  • Three users choose the high-contrast theme.
  • Four users chose the color-blind theme.
  • There are 6 custom task/job state colour themes these appear to be driven by preference rather than visibility issues.

Results

Here are the values users have set for the gcylc.rc settings along with the number of times that value was used:

dot icon size

• 6 medium
• 5 small
• 2 large

initial side-by-side views

• 9 True
• 6 False
• 1 true

initial views

• 17 text, graph
• 12 text
• 10 graph, text
• 7 dot
• 6 text, dot
• 5 graph
• 2 graph,text
• 1 text,graph
• 1 dot, text
• 1 dot, none

That boils down to:

• 48 text
• 34 graph
• 15 dot
• 1 none

maximum update interval

sort by definition order

• 3 True
• 1 false

sort column

• 3 state
• 1 none

sort column ascending

• 1 True

sub-graphs on

task filter highlight color

• 2 PowderBlue

task states to filter out

• 1 waiting
• 1 succeeded
• 1 runahead
• 1 held

transpose dot

• 1 True
• 1 False

transpose graph

• 3 True
• 1 true
• 1 False

ungrouped views

• 20 graph
• 10 text
• 10 dot

use theme

• 7 default
• 5 solid
• 3 high-contrast
• 3 color-blind
• 2 SMS
• 2 PinkRun
• 1 multi
• 1 custom
• 1 adam
• 1 Color-blind
• 1 Anette
• 1 ``

window size

• 3 1080, 900
• 2 1250, 800
• 1 800, 500
• 1 600, 550
• 1 1920, 1200

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