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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/8/20 Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:05:35PM +0100, Graham Binns wrote:
>> 2009/8/18 Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > When I'm looking on a bug page, e.g.
>> >
>> > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/413158
>> >
>> > I used to like being able to click on the milestone name (e.g. Launchpad
>> > Registery 2.2.8) and get transported to the milestone overview page.  By
>> > Ajaxifying that link, I've lost that ability.  Now, clicking on the
>> > milestone name allows me to retarget the bug to a new milestone.  That's
>> > cool, but I miss the old functionality.
>> >
>>
>> This is a bug [1]. Basically, you should be able to click on the
>> milestone link and get to the milestone. We're not sure of the best
>> way to solve it yet, though, because confining the click target to
>> just the edit button might not make things terribly easy to use
>
> I think that's actually not too bad -- the use case of changing the
> milestone is much narrower than the use case of reviewing one, and in an
> empty cell you could make the link target expand if you really wanted to
> make it easy to set.

True, but ... the interaction _is_ really hard if you can't click the
entire cell. We've tried that, and I wasn't very happy with how it
works. Also ideally we'd like all widgets of the same type to behave
in a consistent manner. Solving this is more of a challenge than it
might appear initially.

We should think whether we can better provide a link to the milestone
somewhere else.