From kde-devel Wed Apr 30 21:35:06 2003 From: Datschge Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:35:06 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Streamlining bugs.kde.org X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105173850626069 Hello KDE mailing lists members, I've been bug hunting on b.k.o for the last couple of weeks and really like the technical features of bugzilla and the custom KDE interface. But I still thought that we can make it even better improving the usability and understandability. So I went ahead last week and changed a couple of templates together with Daniel Naber who also fixed further ones of them and committed all changes promptly (thank you!). Following are the changes we did: [Header] Links are now a little more descriptive. [Front page] Added a whole bunch of imo useful links and "tools", changed its grouping and ordering to reflect their popularity and importance. I personally would like to emphasise the importance of the newly added "idling open reports" tool near the bottom of the front page. It will allow everyone to easily thin the huge amount of old bug and wish reports which are often obsolete for some time already and can be easily closed as soon as someone is aware of them. [Actions panel] Changed "Edit prefs" and "Log out (username)" into complete links instead only parts of them. [Bug pages] Completely "redesigned" the "bug list" navigation. "Query page" and "Enter new bug" has been removed since they are in the "Location" line at the top already. The number of the current bug, the whole amount of bugs in the current list and a link to that list has been combined in one easy to understand sentence. "First" and "Previous" now appear together on the left and "Next" und "Last" on the right edge and are shown respectively deactivated on the first and last bug page. Furthermore the top right infobox now also contain the numbers of votes including links to an overview over all casted votes as well as to vote yourself. "View Bug Activity" and "Format For Printing" don't show up big anymore, and the attachment table at the bottom resembles the infobox now. [Query page] Tried uncluttering the page without removing features. Every feature is represented in logical sections. Now we can have some discussion what features can be combined/removed and how to add features like full text search etc. =) [Search result page] Made Time/Date display friendly. ;) Made Bugzilla's "little mind message" more useful by suggesting to edit the existing search to narrow down the result including a link back. Reworded and reorganized navigation links now shown at the top and the bottom (good for long lists). [Vote page] Added link back to bug page on casted votes pages, added text both at the top and the bottom and button after the text on personal votes page. What else I personally would like to see improved: * Logging in should bring you back to the point where you decided to log in, not to the complex query page. (Bugzilla issue, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83044 ) * The Bug Report Wizard should show the number of steps necessary to finish a report and at what point the user is. * Searching for duplicates in the wizard should be done early in instead later on. * Extend "weekly summary" to include links to each product's chart and wishlist making it an even better starting point for getting product specific stats and bugs. * Make "report ownership counts and charts" look more pleasing and logical and remove non-working "most recently doomed" entry (or is its purpose intended to be unknown for users like me?). I hope you like those changes and am looking forward to hearing your comments and suggestions. Thank you for your attention. Best regards, Datschge =) >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<