Componant list on enter_bug.cgi

[Gervase Markham]

timeless wrote:
> One very important thing to remember though, is that the drop down
> widgets are really very very painful to use for sizable lists.

This is very true. However, the current arrangement doesn't make it
obvious from the widget that you have to choose a component. Yes, I know
there is text.

I suspect we have the best of a bad set of answers here already.

Gerv

> The alternatives are:
> 
> 1. Component: [ ----------------- |v]
> 
> 2. Component: [ Please Pick a Component |v]
> 
> Both of these are *terrible* UIs, on average the user has no idea that
> they actually *must* pick something and that the form can't *guess*
> the right value.

I suppose you could disable the Submit button until they did...

> Note: any replies to this thread are likely to be anonymized into my
> blog, if you don't like this, then you probably shouldn't be writing
> email since the email archives are publicly available anyway. (If you
> really want credit/blame for comments that in my blog, you may specify
> as such, but in general I think most people find being anonymized
> considerably better.)

I haven't quite got the hang of your blog yet. You are, of course,
welcome to post there, but surely if we are having a discussion it's
best to have it all in the one place, rather than half on the mailing
list and half in your blog comments?

Gerv