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[Henning Eggers <henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Curtis!

[Explanation for casual readers below.]

I may have missed a discussion about this while I was away, so please feel
free to point me to it.

Thank you for finally moving the the registration slot from that dumb upper
right location. Although I have gotten used to looking there for registration
information it really was not an intuitive place to look for it.

Having said that, I am sorry to say that I find the current location a Bad
Choice, too. Frankly, I am surprised this passed UI review at all. Three
reasons for that:

1. It is inconsistent with pages that don't use the registration slot. The
page title and and the bread crumbs line should not be separated.

2. It was a bold move to put the bread crumbs _under_ the title in the first
place but it worked out quite well. (Yeah Martin!) Moving it further down the
page, though, makes it harder to find out where the page is located.

3. It just looks messy. A big, bold headline, followed by an italic English
sentence with some graphics, followed by the bread crumbs (normal and bold
face), all without any margins - Sorry, that hurts my eyes ...

My suggestion is simple: put the registration slot under the breadcrumbs with
"margin-top: 1em". That would fix all of that and keep the registration
information in a visible spot. Here are some screenshots of how that would
look like:

http://people.canonical.com/~henninge/screenshots/registration-slot-bug.png
http://people.canonical.com/~henninge/screenshots/registration-slot-branch.png
http://people.canonical.com/~henninge/screenshots/registration-slot-spec.png

Again, thanks for finally doing something about this but please consider my
suggestion.

Cheers,
Henning

EXPLANATION:
The registration slot is the line that says "Regported by . .. on ..." or
"Registered by ... on ...". It used to be on the top right for a year since we
introduced the LP 3.0 design. Curtis moved it to be between the title and the
bread crumbs. Look at any bug page etc. on edge and compare to production to
get an impression.