Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:37:43 GMT From: Victor Engmark<victor.engmark@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/111238: Usability improvements for bug search result page Message-ID: <200704041537.l34FbhBh077307@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200704041550.l34Fo4iT002005@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 111238 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Usability improvements for bug search result page >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Apr 04 15:50:03 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Victor Engmark >Release: n/a >Organization: n/a >Environment: n/a >Description: Following up on bug www/111231, here are some suggestions for the search result page - Still all IMHO and open for flames^H^H^H^H^H^H constructive feedback: Add JavaScript code to sort according to any column (http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2006/09/16/unobtrusive-table-sort-script-revisited is good). This would offload the server (people won't have to do another search to change the sorting). - Change the table headers into links to sort by that column. Much more natural than looking above the table for the sorting links. - The legend takes up a lot of space, and is only useful until you learn it. You could move it below the search results or into a side bar to avoid it cluttering the first page of the result. You could also change the "S" column to show the full state name - It doesn't take much space compared to the other fields. - For those not searching by bug ID, I guess the bug description is more important than the ID. Therefore, I suggest you remove that column and change the description to be the link. Minor stuff: - Abbreviations (states, responsibles) could be better understood if marked up with <abbr>. - If the search results don't include any items of a category, that could be removed from the legend to save space. >How-To-Repeat: n/a >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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