-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11-12-08 07:21 AM, Richard Harding wrote: > If we keep with the idea of "information density" I can't help but > feel like the way some of the data is presented wastes space. In > this screenshot, for instance, there's a person icon, the > description text "Assignee: " and then the name. This is true of a > few other fields and I wonder if there's not a way to allow the > user to hide that information for the sake of more meaningful > content in front of their eyes. These are mostly the power users > out there, and they can probably tell just by the contents that > which data is there.
Maybe, but I think it's hard to distinguish between Reporter and Assignee at a glance. > The other idea would be to try to give them back some sort of > header row that can identify the columns at the top/bottom without > forcing the extra content in the data rows themselves. I was going to suggest that, too. > I'm a bit late to the game, but did we look at providing a live > update to the bug view as users were selecting options? Would live > rendering the table as they check/uncheck data to view be something > that might help users see what they can fit/not fit help make them > feel a bit more in control of the view? They can see right away > that adding field XXX forces two lines and it's not worth it to > them so perhaps they leave something unchecked they might have > otherwise set just for kicks. FWIW, actually toggling the fields in realtime is pretty easy. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7g2CcACgkQ0F+nu1YWqI03hACcCcityQElI/fwV00vFz8dmc7O WeYAmwTiVJw64IQQxjZ2uzbpgP4W0GKq =iy6/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
