1207592 - Make Retrigger/Backfill action button invoke the first entry in its menu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tree Management :: Treeherder, defect, P3)

Description

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

Wes and I had discussed this on IRC last month during work on bug 1187394, we'd considered the possibility of invoking the first menu entry (Retrigger job) when clicking on the related Actionbar menu icon.

This would present the following UX considerations:

o if the user is intending to select Backfill in the menu, and they accidentally mouse up, they've Retriggered the job unintentionally
o it presents a sort-of new menu paradigm in Treeherder for buttons which are icons*

* we sort of do this with the Sheriff, Filter and Pinboard^ buttons, but they are text menus which don't have multiple choices.

That is not to say we couldn't do it though :) I've used other 3D applications which have this behavior with some custom button palettes. Maybe it's popular in bootstrap apps outside of Treeherder.

Comment 1

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

Cc'ing James as this was discussed briefly at last week's meeting.

Comment 2

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

This bug may be superseded by breaking out the button again entirely, in bug 1207460.

Comment 3

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Backfill got split out into the ellipses menu, so retrigger does it's thing no matter what.