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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/8/20 Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Tom Berger wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Clicking on the cell would be okay if
>
> 1) You weren't undoing all that muscle memory

Yes, I think that's the best argument for keeping it a link to the
milestone. Years of learning how to do things are hard to forget.

> 2) The text didn't look like a "click me to go to the milestones page" link

It doesn't. Its colour is green, which is our visual idiom for opening
an inline widget.

> 3) There was a list of milestones on the page (probably right portlet)
>
> I'd really prefer #3 because very often I don't just want to see what's
> targeted for this bug's current milestone, but I want to navigate to other
> milestones.  A list of them on the bug page would be very helpful.

Yes, I also like this option best. I'll prepare both options so we can decide.

Tom