Re: New GNOME2 bug submission page- still needs a lot of love :)

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:01:15PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> So....
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi
[...]
> *bug people: any usability/layout/quality suggestions, go for it :) I'm
> also looking at extending the page so that it'll default to 'show only
> GNOME2 components, but if requested, show all libraries, or all
> everything, or just GNOME1.4 stuff.' Sound good to you?

Um ... it's probably not good to say this, since you've gone to a lot of
work, Luis (and it looks really nice in Galeon), but

	links http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi

is a disaster. This means it's possibly not so cool with things like
screen readers or other assistive technologies either (it mostly depends
on how they handle "select" boxes, which links seems to choke on).

One solution is not to try and solve too many problems on one page and
make another "simple report" style page which is more text-based.

I am *really* not trying to stir up trouble here and I agree that a
simple reporting form is a good idea. It's just a bit hypocritical to
trumpet all of GNOME's accessibility features and have to put an
exception in for the bug reporting. That said, I'm not really a good
judge of what other people consider "usable" (I know what's usable for
me and that's where I draw the line), so maybe the traditional entry
page is fine for text browsers, etc.

Malcolm

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