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[Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Here is a current screenshot of package details:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/harvest/media/gsoc-week11/package-details-august1.png

It can be difficult to relate the summary on the right to a specific
opportunity, especially when there are many of these together.

For now, moving the mouse over an opportunity will give it a light grey highlight all the way across, which acts as an okay alternative to zebra striping (which really didn't fit this very well).
This can also be helped a little bit by reducing the maximum width to something smaller, to avoid having disorienting long lines.

Here's another design that occurred to me:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/harvest/media/gsoc-week11/package-details-alternate-august1.png

Those Edit buttons could maybe be invisible normally, shown when the
mouse is hovering over an opportunity. One advantage here is those
details are easy to link up with a specific opportunity, (and edit is a
more deliberate act so less of an issue), but a disadvantage is I can't
instantly find them as I scan.

We should try some different designs here to find one that fits our use
cases.

** Affects: harvest
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Package details can be difficult to read
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613285
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Status in Harvest Service: New

Bug description:
Here is a current screenshot of package details:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/harvest/media/gsoc-week11/package-details-august1.png

It can be difficult to relate the summary on the right to a specific opportunity, especially when there are many of these together.

For now, moving the mouse over an opportunity will give it a light grey highlight all the way across, which acts as an okay alternative to zebra striping (which really didn't fit this very well).
This can also be helped a little bit by reducing the maximum width to something smaller, to avoid having disorienting long lines.

Here's another design that occurred to me:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/harvest/media/gsoc-week11/package-details-alternate-august1.png

Those Edit buttons could maybe be invisible normally, shown when the mouse is hovering over an opportunity. One advantage here is those details are easy to link up with a specific opportunity, (and edit is a more deliberate act so less of an issue), but a disadvantage is I can't instantly find them as I scan.

We should try some different designs here to find one that fits our use cases.