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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Justas <justas@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 04/11/2011 08:16 AM, Alan Elkner wrote:

>> I added CSS classes to schooltool.css that make the table follow the
>> guidelines laid out on page 27 of the Ubuntu style guide.  That
>> includes the dotted line as border-bottom of table cells.  I chose
>> 220px as column width rather than 140px because it seemed too narrow,
>> and people will rarely use more than four terms.
>
>  Umm.. why 220px?  Just couldn't figure out the reasoning behind this
> number.
>
>  Page 26 also says "Table width: 100%. Table should use the whole width of
> the content area."  This of course works pretty well when your content area
> is 544px (as in the guidelines), and may look quirky when it is whole page
> width, like we have now.  So no objections, just curious.

Given that there could be an arbitrarily large number of terms, making
the page arbitrarily wide seems better than allowing the columns to
become arbitrarily narrow.

>  As a compromise, maybe we could have "link existing section" in all
> unlinked terms, and "extend to term" only in terms after the last linked
> one?  Get the best of both worlds - soft hint what user should do +
> possibility to fix mistakes.

That would probably be best.  Also, maybe an "unlink" option too?

>  I'd also like if ExtendTermView had a confirmation button.  In my
> experience, links that create content without confirmation bite users hard
> (in javascripty implementations you usually have to use at least two mouse
> clicks, see assigning a developer to a bug in Launchpad).

Yes, we probably should.

--Tom