UI module owner

Vlad Dascalu vladd at bugzilla.org
Sun Jun 25 23:08:50 UTC 2006


Hey,

> IMO the best idea is to have a wizard-like search and bug entry pages,
> with ability to switch back to current pages when "the wizard" will
> start abuse you.

Actually if you recently checked the trunk, it has a great UI for
uploading a new attachment right on the new bug entry form.

The entire UI (made by Marc) is a single clickable button, "Add an
attachment". When you click it, the entire contents of the add attachment
form (which was hidden until now) unfolds, and the user can upload the
attachment. Clicking the button again restores the previous UI. It's hard
to describe in words, but it really kicks asses.

Instead of wizards or tabs, I'd suggest something like that from place to
place to hide out complexity. When the user needs something, he can click
the button (we could have several of them, each one having as label an
important topic or category-name in a given taxonomy) and have the form in
front.

I prefer this approach to the wizard/tab thing, but there's also the Lynx
support decision issue. The UI requires Javascript, I think.

I invite you to check it out on Bugzilla-trunk if you haven't already:

http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/enter_bug.cgi?product=FoodReplicator

--Vlad





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