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Re: Once bug affects you has been chosen it shouldn't appear again



2008/10/18 shirish <shirishag75@xxxxxxxxx>:

>  Somehow the single toggle button for affects me and doesn't affect
> me doesn't gel. It doesn't tell me that what my current status is.

Yes it does. When the bug is marked as affecting you, it says "This
bug affects me too" and when it's marked as not affecting you it says
"This bug doesn't affect me". It also displays an icon when the bug is
marked as affecting you.

> The possibility to confuse users is still there. It should be much
> more identifiable.

Bear in mind that it's always difficult to display many different
functions on a single page and have them all stand out. The bug page
is quite full.

> A much better solution perhaps to have some sort of
> colour change or something which tells the user at a glance which bugs
> are affecting him, both at the bug page itself as well as overall look
> within his bug page as well.
>
> What do you guys think of this idea?

I'm not a huge fan of using colour coding to represent states. I
almost always find it confusing, rather than helpful, since it makes
me remember the arbitrary colour mapping for every bit of information.
I am also not sure that it's very important to display to the user
which bugs affect them (other than for the purpose of allowing them to
change their selection). Can you imagine a use case for looking for
bugs which you have already marked as affecting you? Maybe we should
make it possible to search for such bugs, in case you want to review
them. For the bug listing, I much rather save the space for displaying
information about what bugs are affecting other users.

Tom




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