324401 - Remove admin links from the footer and add a link to admin.cgi

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286338

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Frédéric Buclin]

We summarize each admin page by one (explicit?) word only:

"Flags", "Products", "Whining", etc... (those are links in the footer)

Unless you know Bugzilla pretty well, these link names do not really help you (and especially newbies). OK, those are for admins, but how many admins are newbies? More and more, IMO. ;)

We should have a single link "Administer the installation" or something like that which points to a new admin.cgi which contains, for instance, a table where each row contains a link to an edit*.cgi page and a description of what this page is for:

|--------------------------------------------------------|
| Administer      |             Description              |
|--------------------------------------------------------|
|  <a>Flags</a>   | Flags are used to track the status   |
|                 | of attachments and bugs...           |
|                 |                                      |
| <a>Products</a> | You can create, edit or delete       |
|                 | products from here....               |

etc....


Either that or use a list to do the same:

<dl>
  <dt><a>Flags</a></dt>
  <dd>Flags are used to track the status of attachments and bugs...</dd>

  <dt><a>Products</a></dt>
  <dd>You can create, edit or delete products from here....</dd>

etc...


2.24 seems appropriate to be more end user friendly. All pages are templatize; it's time to improve them. This would make Bugzilla 3.0 even better.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Is it me or this is a dupe of bug 286338? :(

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

I found it too late. Shame!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286338 ***