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Bug 369762

Summary:

Be able to see all repo details on the repo page

Product:

[ECD] Orion

Reporter:

John J. Barton <johnjbarton>

Component:

Git

Assignee:

Project Inbox <orion.git-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

antonm, susan

Version:

0.4

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
http://localhost:8080/git/git-repository.html#/gitapi/clone/file/B/	none

Description John J. Barton

2012-01-25 19:20:55 EST

Created attachment 210092 [details]
http://localhost:8080/git/git-repository.html#/gitapi/clone/file/B/

Here I have clicked on one repo and I got a startling result. I narrowed the page to avoid the white space problem.

This view is disorienting. Very little context connects to the previous view:
  The breadcrumb does not add, it changes completely, 
  Repositories becomes Repository so I don't know what happened.
  A dotted line tells me a new section of information begins, but then I read a link:
    See All repositories
  followed by my repro name. Why are these together?
  Then Working Directory, an empty line, and a dotted line and another empty line. What does it mean? 
  The next section has stuff about 'commits' and 'workspace' then repeats the buttons above. ?

Eventually I realized that this page is a completely new page. The similar-but-not-exactly-the-same top part of the page gave me the wrong clues.

So suggestions:
  Put "Repositories" on the breadcrumb of the first view (no link).
  Omit "Repositories" on the content page of the first view
  Omit "Repository" and "See all Repositories" from the second view.
  Indent all of the content subservient to the repo at least as deep as the repo name. That way only the repo I selected looks the same as the Repositories page, everything else is "under" the repo so I know it is about the repo.
  Decide what the dotted lines mean and move them either closer to the title or closer to the content.


Now instead of four layers of twisty we have three layers of complete page rebuilding. Sorry, but this does not seem to me to be the right direction. It wasn't the twisty model that was the problem, it was having to make four clicks to see stuff.

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2012-01-26 08:12:24 EST

I would try the following:
- Merge Repository and Working Directory sections. There will be just one set of actions, which is indeed duplicated now for "Repo" and "Working Directory" sections.
- Get rid of "See all repositories" link. The one in breadcrumb is enough. 
- I think there has to be some page title. So just removing the title is not a way to go. Maybe just use "Git". Then we will have "Git" title and "Repositories" (no link) in the breadcrumb for the repo list. And for one repo page it will be "Git" title and "Repositories > [repoId]" in the breadcrumb.

For dotted lines and indents, I will raise a separate bug for our new CSS. CC'ing Anton who's been working on it.

I don't understand what are those "three layers of compete page rebuilding". Could you elaborate?

Comment 2 Szymon Brandys

2012-01-26 08:45:32 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> - I think there has to be some page title. So just removing the title is not a
> way to go. Maybe just use "Git". Then we will have "Git" title and
> "Repositories" (no link) in the breadcrumb for the repo list. And for one repo
> page it will be "Git" title and "Repositories > [repoId]" in the breadcrumb.

Done.

Comment 3 Susan McCourt

2012-01-26 11:42:28 EST

dotted lines are probably going away per Linda's work to be replaced with subtle bar shading.  I have some mockups I just got late yesterday that I need to show Anton.

+1 on the page title fix.  I like having simple, static page titles and then the breadcrumb scopes it.

Comment 4 John J. Barton

2012-01-26 12:13:43 EST

> I don't understand what are those "three layers of compete page rebuilding".
> Could you elaborate?

To see all of the information available for a repo, one must:
  1. Repositories page
  2. Repository page
  3. All Branches page
  4. All Remotes (I guess)
This is just the same number as the twisty soln but now it is a lot more visual flashing.  The whole UI take up more space and is harder to use.

Allowing folks with too many branches/remotes to close them up is fine, but the default should be "show all".

Comment 5 Szymon Brandys

2013-01-25 06:31:16 EST

I'm renaming this bug to reflect the most important issue described in this bug. We started working on filters for page sections. If this work is done, we could show all details on the repository page and just narrow down sections using filters.

There are other bugs for flashing and removing white spaces.

Comment 6 Szymon Brandys

2014-04-28 06:46:52 EDT

The page was changed couple times already. Not sure which comments still apply.