280858 - Last Changed Date column header wastes space

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[psellhorst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In previous Bugzilla versions, the default header text for the column
containing the date on which a bug was last changed was "Changed". Now it's
"Last Changed Date". While the new text is, obviously, technically more
accurate, it also wastes space - either horizontally (leaving less room
for the other columns) or vertically (increasing the header height,
leaving less room for the bug rows).

Since you're already using the concept of shortening column headers to better
fit their typical column contents for columns such as Sev(erity) or Pri(ority),
I suggest changing the title back to "Changed". Dates are almost always much
shorter than the string "Last Changed Date".


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[psellhorst]

Attachment: Screenshot (new vs. old)

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

Would "Last modified" be ok? As it is used in the bug? Could you also give an
example of a query that returns that column.

Comment 3

[psellhorst]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Would "Last modified" be ok? As it is used in the bug? Could you also give an
> example of a query that returns that column.

I think that "Last modified" is still a little longer than necessary.
Compare:

Changed
Last modified
Mon 05:36

Moreover, since it's two words, it may cause an unwanted line break,
therefore my suggestion still is:

Last Changed Date -> Changed
Open Date         -> Opened

Example query:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&chfieldfrom=1d&chfieldto=Now&columnlist=changeddate,assigned_to,bug_status,resolution,short_short_desc&order=bugs.delta_ts

Comment 4

[Anne (:annevk)]

Attachment: patch #1

Something like this?

Comment 5

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

Comment on attachment 174489 [details] [diff] [review]
patch #1

Yes, this looks good.

Comment 6

[Shane H. W. Travis]

Checking in template/en/default/global/field-descs.none.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/field-
descs.none.tmpl,v  <--  field-descs.none.tmpl
new revision: 1.6; previous revision: 1.5
done