161072 - Make the bug number field use 7 digits instead of 6

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[a_geek]

Hello,

the bug number field in "Find bug # _____" has five instead of six places,
so it displays only the last five digits if you enter a six-digit number
to search for.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This actually depends on your font settings - it does this for me on one
computer, but not another.

Comment 2

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

It has six spaces on my computer, but I wouldn't object to it having seven to
work around this problem.  A little extra space doesn't hurt (sometimes it even
acts as a useful margin), and too little space can create problems.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The User Interface component now belongs to Gerv.  Reassigning all UNCONFIRMED
and NEW (but not ASSIGNED) bugs currently owned by Myk (the previous component
owner) to Gerv.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning back to Myk.  That stuff about Gerv taking over the User Interface
component turned out to be short-lived.  Please pardon our confusion, and I'm
very sorry about the spam.

Comment 5

[chaduv]

I don't know whether this is still an issue - this bug was reported a year ago. 
If the reporter was talking about the standard footer that appears on pages, 
all that would need to be changed would be to up the size field 
at /mozilla/source/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/useful-
links.html.tmpl#39

Will supply a trivial patch tonight if wanted.

If it's not an issue anymore, or the original reporter was referring to some 
other "find bug" query spot, ignore this.

Comment 6

[Vlad Dascalu]

>> all that would need to be changed would be to up the size field 
at /mozilla/source/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/useful-
links.html.tmpl#39

You could also need to modify ./template/en/default/bug/edit.html.tmpl that
contains:

<input name="dup_id" size="6"

If you plan to write a patch it could help to grep the source to make sure you
modify all occurances.

Comment 7

[chaduv]

Attachment: Patch to widen query field slightly

Apologies for any badness, this is my first stab at a patch for mozilla. This
is about as trivial as they come: widen the field size of bug number querying
from 6 to 7 in three (all) places - the main footer, the field when you call
show_bug.cgi with no arguments, and the one referenced by [e-mail].

Comment 8

[timeless]

i'd argue that this should be the (1+log(max(bug#))). For a bugzilla w/ less
than 1000 bugs, a 7 wide field would be ugly, and in a bugzilla w/ 10,000,000
bugs, a 7 wide field wouldn't be good enough. i'm not sure how expensive that
function would be.

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Pushing out bugs that aren't blockers.  If someone's working on one of these, we
can move it back.

Comment 10

[Travis Chase]

Im marking this worksforme Because the Find Number Box fits 7 numbers that are
visable and more if you keep adding them.

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing target of DUPLICATE/WONTFIX/INVALID/WORKSFORME so they'll show up as
untriaged if they get reopened.