Launchpad itself

Colour bugtask status in interleaved changes.

Bug #351737 reported by Graham Binns
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
Launchpad itself 2.2.4

Bug Description

At the moment we show a plain text representation of bugtask status when displaying them in interleaved changes. We should colour these as they are coloured in the rest of the UI.

See original description
Graham Binns (gmb)
Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 2.2.4
status: New → Triaged
importance: High → Medium
Graham Binns (gmb)
Changed in malone:
status: Triaged → In Progress
status: In Progress → Triaged
Graham Binns (gmb)
description: updated
summary: - Linkify bugtask status in interleaved changes.
+ Colour bugtask status in interleaved changes.
Graham Binns (gmb)
Changed in malone:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Is this really a good idea? It would mean that when scrolling through the list of comments, the most prominent elements would be bug statuses -- and most of those would be statuses the bug report doesn't even have any more.

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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote :

> Is this really a good idea?

I'd say no. Colour coding is only useful if the colour conveys information that is not already available from the content, or at the very least makes it easy to parse the content when you skim through the entire list. In this case I don't think it would add much, and it might even make it harder to read the status changes.

If we want to linkify the statuses, we could link them to the reference page explaining them, so that if a reader is unsure about what is the meaning of the change they could click the status and get an explanation.

Revision history for this message
Graham Binns (gmb) wrote : Re: [Bug 351737] Re: Colour bugtask status in interleaved changes.

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:30:35AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Is this really a good idea?

No.

 status invalid

Changed in malone:
status: In Progress → Invalid
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