Exceptionally handsome if you like Windows 8 perhaps. I don't like the big rectangles with bright colors. A good dashboard should be almost invisible until something important happens.
Dashing contributor here: That's great, the default style isn't supposed to be a one-size-fits-all solution, and it's definitely not trying to dictate design decisions.
The real meat of the project is the underlying messaging that passes your data from the server to multiple clients.
You write a job that calls send_data, and Dashing takes care of the rest. There's room for as much customization as you like on the front end.
Dashing was built to run the internal dashboards here at Shopify. As such it's biased towards our existing technology stack. Seeing as we don't use graphite, we had no need to include widgets that support it.
That's why we want people to submit third-party widgets and jobs. We can't cater to all environments ourselves, but others can help out and share their own.
Is it trolling, though? Why should I see the potential in this dashboarding utility when there are dozens out there understanding the benefits of good visualizations, using proper colors for different situations?
I love the idea of a dashboard framework but under no circumstances am I going to make it harder on my users by adopting that Live tiles nonsense. Will be glad when that trend quickly runs its course.
