26316 - Colum heading lengths...

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[e75644]

For example, there's no sense in the table heads "Votes", "Target" or "Result" 
being spelled all out because those fields are empty much of the time, and 
rarely longer than three letters. They should probably be shortened like "ID" or 
"Plt" - altough it's hard to say, best would be let users choose the headings, 
but that'd be a pain. "Vts", "Rslt", "Trg" etc. may not tell much... but at any 
case, as they stand currently, including those three takes most of the screen 
real-estate for practically empty fields.

Comment 1

[e75644]

It occurs to me one way to make the columns fit better without actually 
shortening the headings to unintelligible gibberish would be to use two rows for 
the headings, putting every second heading on the other row and letting them 
span two columns.

Comment 2

[Terry Weissman]

That's not a bad idea.  I'll have to try it and see what it looks like.

Please don't muck the priority of bugs you assign.  Priority is for use of the
assigned-to person, to help them decide the order they are going to fix things.

Comment 3

[Terry Weissman]

OK, I tried it out, and it's ugly, but useful.

So, there is now an option.  If you click the "change columns" link at the
bottom of a list of bugs, a new pulldown menu on that page lets you choose
whether to have "normal" or "staggered" headers.

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Verif.  This option is cool, Terry you rule.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Moving to Bugzilla product