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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/8/20 Brad Crittenden <bac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 16:34 , Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:05:35PM +0100, Graham Binns wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Restricting the edit clicks to the icon would help with this bug
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/412925
> "new ajax interface for changing bug statuses is too easy"

It might, though we don't want to make it too difficult either.
Interacting with the inline choice editor when you can only click the
edit icon is extremely frustrating. Propagate that all over the table
and you'll get many opportunities for users to be frustrated.