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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: New Report Tracker
From:       Emerald Arcana <emerald-arcana () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-02-24 17:16:36
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> What form page? Depends what you need to do. I'll probably write a few new
> interface pages, the alternative is some major perl h4x0ring ;)

The "main" page... I suppose it's the "Show Bug" page.  (It's labelled with a 
heading of KDE Usability study and Bugzilla Bug 1; the link is here:

http://usability.kde.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1
).

> > When I look at it I find the interface sort of confusing.... there's a
> > lot of buttons and widgets described by words I'm not too sure of.
>
> Not a great deal I can do about that, but hopefully my inteface pages will
> be friendlier.

Can we move buttons and widgets around, perhaps, to make the page seem a 
little less intimidating?  It's a little embarassing for the usability study 
bug report system to have a confusing interface. :)

You could perhaps group everything into "quadrants" of sorts.  You can see 
that Platform and OS are somewhat related to each other.  I don't know if 
Version corresponds to the OS or to the program version... then, you could 
have a bit of a space for a section for "Priority" and "Severity".

Bug number should appear at the top, with ID and name.

Reporter should appear under the bug name, maybe covering the entire 
horizontal length.  CC can go under that.

So, more like:

Bug#:1 - Bugzilla Bug  1 Test
-------------------------------------------------
Reporter: bero@redhat.de (Rernhard Rosenkraenzer)
CC:
Add CC: [___]

Product: [____]  Component: [_____] Version: [____]

Status: [___] 
Resolution: [___]

Assigned to: [_______]
Priority: [___]  Severity: [____]

Platform:  [___]  OSL [____] Version: [___]

Bug 1 Depends on: [__]
Bug 1 Blocks: [__]

Comments:
[__
[__
[__
[__

URL: [__]
Attachments: [__]

Change Bug Status 	[ ] Change bug status
				[ ] Reopen
				[ ] ...

COMMIT  RESET


That's just an idea.  Of course, maybe this version's just as unreadable as 
the first.

> Yes, this needs further attention. Perhaps we'll need to get rid of the
> blue bar at the side. What browser are you using?

I use Mozilla and Konqueror somewhat interchangably.  If you have a 1024x768 
browser window the screen is okay.  Once you get smaller than about 80% of 
that, the horizontal bars start showing up.

I think if you move the "Reporter" and "CC" sections to somewhere else, it 
SHOULD fix that problem.

Other than that, this is really great.  A specific tool for usability issues 
is magnificent.
-- 
-- Arcana
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