132383 - bugzilla should have a default favicon

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Luis Villa]

This would require help by someone with a clue about favicon structure/design ;)
but I think that it would be nice if the default bugzilla install included a
favicon. The image in the URL field is GPL (from the bug-buddy source,
originally, I think) and might be a good starting place for any artist caring to
look at something that would be a nice default for bugzilla.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Actually, I'm glad that you filed this bug, because I had a really good idea
about how to use favicons in Bugzilla.

You see, I often find myself with a number of open bugs (in tabs or windows) and
I can only see the bug numbers. As I can't remember the number, I have to look
through a lot of them to find the bug I want next.

If Bugzilla made the favicon (and perhaps the page background also) one of e.g.
twenty colours, depending on the last two digits of the number (so it's constant
for a bug), I could say "I wanted a bug, and I know it was a green one" and look
for green square favicons. Or you could also use symbols. Normally, there'd only
be one or two of that colour open.

This would obviously be a pref, as I can see it might not appeal to everyone.
What do people think?

Gerv

Comment 2

[Luis Villa]

Huh. Interesting suggestion. I don't think I'd use it, given my specific tabbing
habits, but... I could definitely see it being useful for some people, and
possibly even for me.

Comment 3

[mental]

Gerv,

I'd had an almost identical thought brewing, but instead was planning on using
different bug icons.  Had compiled a list of about 30 "bugs" that were fairly
distinct, but was only planning to use 25, and map the bug number to number mod
25.  I believe that these could be a useful mnemonic, and might even be worth
querying against.

"I know it was a dragonfly bug, but was it targeted at 1.0 or not?"  I kind of
relished the thought of also having a squashed bug icon for bugs that were
resolved, closed, etc.

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Taking it even further, we could make it possible for each bug to be assigned a
favicon, either one chosen from a list of available icons or a custom one.

Comment 5

[Luis Villa]

Three thoughts:
1) There is only so much data you can usefully convey in a 16x16 icon in a tab-
I think the UI people might scream at some of these ideas :) This is a really
hard, practical limit on the usefulness of any of this stuff.
2) If we insist on ignoring (1) ;) it might be useful to sync this with the
patch for bug categories that is around somewhere- each category might have a
different favico associated with it by default.
3) All I really wanted when I filed this bug was to see if we could persuade
someone with a few skills to make a simple, correct .ico file. That's all I want
in the world is art that I can backport ;)

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114316 ***

Comment 7

[Luis Villa]

Not a duplicate; that one is 'bugzilla.mozilla should show the same icon as
everywhere else in .m.o. domain' while this one is 'bugzilla, the software,
should have a default favico that is not related to mozilla.org.'

Comment 8

[mental]

Related to comment #4 and comment #5: bug 108898 and bug 108897.

Comment 9

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

What happened to the bugzilla logo?

Comment 10

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

cc:ing Dawn, who recently did work with Bugzilla icons.  Dawn, is there an icon
we can convert into a favicon?  We got a lot of entries in our error log for
clients looking for favicon.ico and not finding it.

Comment 11

[Sergey Sokoloff]

Gentlemen, does your Bugzilla still need multiple category-related icons?

[Bug 132383 --> my votes]

Comment 12

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

How about something really simple. Could we add a distinct site icon for each of
the major interfaces? Being able to distinguish tabs with buglists from tabs
with bugs would be a big win for any users that run with a couple of buglists
open and a dozen or so more tabs (where the title truncates down to just
"Bug..." for both buglist and show bug pages). It shouldn't be too hard to plug
<link REL="icon" HREF="buglist.png" TYPE="image/png"> and <link REL="icon"
HREF="show_bug.png" TYPE="image/png"> into the respective templates. Even if the
default distro uses the same image (if we lack graphic design resources) at
least installations could easily customize. 

Comment 13

[victory <[e-mail]>]

Attachment: buggy with purple bg, 8bit

Comment 14

[victory <[e-mail]>]

Attachment: buggy with purple bg, 24bit

Comment 15

[Luis Villa]

It is really hard to make out buggy at that size, I'm afraid, particularly with the background. :/

Comment 16

[Frédéric Buclin]

Actually, it's not that bad. I like it. :)

Comment 17

[Frédéric Buclin]

This bug is retargetted to Bugzilla 3.2 for one of the following reasons:

- it has no assignee (except the default one)
- we don't expect someone to fix it in the next two weeks (i.e. before we freeze the trunk to prepare Bugzilla 3.0 RC1)
- it's not a blocker

If you are working on this bug and you think you will be able to submit a patch in the next two weeks, retarget this bug to 3.0.

If this bug is something you would like to see implemented in 3.0 but you are not a developer or you don't think you will be able to fix this bug yourself in the next two weeks, please *do not* retarget this bug.

If you think this bug should absolutely be fixed before we release 3.0, either ask on IRC or use the "blocking3.0 flag".

Comment 18

[Guy Pyrzak]

Attachment: Favicon Patch v1

use the favicons attached to check in. I just want to get this guy closed.

Comment 19

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 300398 [details] [diff] [review]
Favicon Patch v1

>+    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="skins/standard/header/bz3.ico" 

IMO, the favicon should not depend on the skin choosen but should be specific to the installation. So I think it should be renamed favicon.ico (instead of bz3.ico) and be moved into bugzilla/images/, i.e. href="images/favicon.ico".

Comment 20

[Guy Pyrzak]

Attachment: Favicon Patch v2

with suggested fixes

Comment 21

[Guy Pyrzak]

Attachment: Favicon Patch v2

with suggested fixes

Comment 22

[Guy Pyrzak]

Attachment: favicon icon v1

Comment 23

[Guy Pyrzak]

Comment on attachment 219792 [details]
buggy with purple bg, 8bit

use favicon.ico

Comment 24

[Guy Pyrzak]

Comment on attachment 219793 [details]
buggy with purple bg, 24bit

use favicon.ico

Comment 25

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

justdave has to tell us if we yet have the legal power to distribute that image.

Comment 26

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

still waiting for final confirmation on that. It's in the works though.

Comment 27

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Bugzilla 3.2 is now frozen. Only enhancements blocking 3.2 or specifically approved for 3.2 may be checked in to the 3.2 branch. If you would like to nominate your enhancement for Bugzilla 3.2, set "blocking3.2" tp "?", and either the target milestone will be changed back, or the blocking3.2 flag will be granted, if we will accept this enhancement for Bugzilla 3.2.

Comment 28

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Comment on attachment 300417 [details]
favicon icon v1

Yes, that looks good, and it's different from the bugzilla.org favicon, so that's fine.

We still have to get legal power to distribute the image, however.

Comment 29

[Guy Pyrzak]

Comment on attachment 300415 [details] [diff] [review]
Favicon Patch v2

this is a dup

Comment 30

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Comment on attachment 300416 [details] [diff] [review]
Favicon Patch v2

Yeah, this looks fine.

I was thinking that it should be skinnable, but no--on a single installation, all skins should have the same favicon.

Comment 31

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Holding approval until we have copyright clearance on the image.

Comment 32

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

We got copyright clearance, go ahead and put it on the branch. :-)

Comment 33

[Frédéric Buclin]

Attachment: unbitrotten patch, v2.0.1

Here is the patch I'm going to check in.

Comment 34

[Frédéric Buclin]

tip:

Checking in images/favicon.ico;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/images/favicon.ico,v  <--  favicon.ico
initial revision: 1.1
done
Checking in template/en/default/global/header.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/header.html.tmpl,v  <--  header.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.57; previous revision: 1.56
done


3.1.4:

Checking in images/favicon.ico;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/images/favicon.ico,v  <--  favicon.ico
new revision: 1.1.2.1; previous revision: 1.1
done
Checking in template/en/default/global/header.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/header.html.tmpl,v  <--  header.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.56.2.1; previous revision: 1.56
done

Comment 35

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Added to the 3.2 relnotes.