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

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Luis Villa wrote:
> 

> > "List of recently reported bugs"-- might be nicer if these opened in a
> > separate browser window so the user didn't have to keep finding their
> > way back to this page (but if you do this, make sure the popup doesn't
> > directly overlay the existing window, so the user knows what's happened
> > and doesn't wonder why their Back button has suddenly stopped working).
> 
> Eck. I will not use popups, period. But I'll happily take other
> suggestions :)

Well, IMHO they're only evil when they're unexpected (Buy Me Now!) or
unnoticed.  I would have suggested putting the supplementary information
(which is basically online help for your web app, and you wouldn't
complain about having online help for any other app in a popup) in a
frame or something, but frames are a lot more evil :)

> > The list of bugs when you select "my bugs" is nastily formatted-- the
> > most important column (Summary) is given the least amount of space, and
> > "Owner" seems to take up half the page.  Never noticed this happening in
> > NS4.7x, guess it must be a Mozilla thing.
> 
> ?

Basically it looks like this, which is kind of sucky:

ID    Sev Pri Owner                          State Result   Summary 
53544 nor Nor gtk-bugs gtk org               NEW            KEYNAV:
GtkMenu, 

          
                                                            GtkMenuItem,
                                                           
GtkCheckBoxMenuItem, 
                                                            GtkRadioB
53577 nor Nor gtk-bugs gtk org               REOP           KEYNAV:
GtkToggleButton, 
                                                           
GtkCheckButton, 
                                                           
GtkRadioButton 
53579 nor Nor gtk-bugs gtk org               NEW            KEYNAV:
GtkCombo


Cheeri,
Calum.

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