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Bug 391211

Summary:	Lot of unused space to the right of comments
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Mickael Istria <mistria>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	marcel.bruch
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968889 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=446727
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Mickael Istria

2012-10-05 06:23:46 EDT

I noticed that when reading comments on Bugzilla, they are always on the lest of the screen, and don't even take half of page width. I makes them more difficult to read, especially when there are some long code snippet which are split on several lines.

It would be cool to get this wider.
Changing style for CSS class ".bz_comment_text" to with:100% seems to work

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2012-10-05 09:42:25 EDT

Mickael, I am not a usability expert, but I think widening the comments would make them much more difficult to read on wide screens.

On the other hand, this is the type of change that you can make on your own with the help of local CSS overrides if you prefer it.  Or you can use greasemonkey, like the JDT guys do:

http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ui/dev.php#scripts

Comment 2 Mickael Istria

2012-10-05 09:45:32 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mickael, I am not a usability expert, but I think widening the comments
> would make them much more difficult to read on wide screens.

I'm not a usability expert neither, but I think the contrary ;) Do you know with ergonomics knowledge someone we could ask for opinion?

However, this is just a suggestion, if you want to mark this report as WONTFIX, please do so.

> On the other hand, this is the type of change that you can make on your own
> with the help of local CSS overrides if you prefer it.  Or you can use
> greasemonkey, like the JDT guys do:
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ui/dev.php#scripts

Thanks.
Now I know how to widen comment locally, I can do it when necessary (mainly when there is code) using Firebug),

Comment 3 Mickael Istria

2014-02-06 12:12:20 EST

Opened bug to Bugzilla on this topic: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968889

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2016-10-04 01:01:07 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2018-09-30 15:48:18 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 6 Eclipse Webmaster

2018-10-01 11:53:52 EDT

Ok after 6ish years I'll close this as wontfix.

-M.