new bugzilla look and feel

[chicks at chicks.net]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Gervase Markham wrote:
>> Sounds good, except "have a fixed period of time to discuss it" should be 
>> "get input from others and come to agreement with Myk (or Dave)"; and note 
>> that some changes may require Perl code hacking in addition to template 
>> work.
>
> I would suggest that the best approach is to statically mock up a couple 
> of key pages (query, buglist, show_bug) and pass them around for 
> comment. That's not to say that you and Myk have to take any notice of 
> the comments, but some people may have some good ideas. And doing static 
> mockups allows people to take it and hack it to say "But what about if 
> it looked like _this_?" and allows you to modify quicker based on 
> feedback.

I'd like to add a couple points:

- The ultimate implementation of this look and feel would be best done 
with current CSS.  This would tend to degrade reasonably to older systems 
while providing users of current browsers a prettier interface.

- Red Hat has redesigned the user interface for bugzilla and has ended up 
with something that is certainly prettier than what we have now.  Whether 
it would make a good or bad starting point I'm not sure.

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</chris>