Re: Unified appearance of Comments-tab and History-tab

Mick Semb Wever wrote:

>I see a number of solutions:
> * 3 columns is immediately possible by merging Date & Author.
> * Duplicate text removed between Actions and Reason (as you have done 
>already).
> * Instead of merging Date & Author into one column merging it into a 
>header row (like you have done already). 

So we aren't too far away from each other.

>problem with this is i feel it 
>adds an extra line to the page for every changeset.
> * Always putting the body of the comment changed/added into the Reason 
>column. Most likely then the Actions column could be much narrower since 
>all the long-text text would be appearing under the Reason column.
>
Option-changes don't require the whole with of the screen.
Changes of text-attributes or long-text-attributes will profit from it.
Comments/Reasons will profit too.

How about still aligning the three sections(timestamp, actions, comments) vertically, 
but making a clear visual distinction between the sections 
and especially highlighting user/timestamp and the attribute-names in each action.
The sections for actions and comments are only displayed if there is something to display.
...ok, I think I will have to mock up a sample-history. ;)

>> Btw. all the popular Trackers I have used or tested (like Bugzilla,
>> Jira, Mantis, Trac,FogBugz,...) have some kind of one-column history. I
>> don’t think they're all wrong. (And I don’t think this is a good unique
>> selling point for Scarab.)
>
>Sorry but i just don't buy this sort of rationale:
>"We should do it that way because they did it that way"

Right.
I should have written: I used/use some of the other trackers and I found/find their one-column-history quite convenient.

Ronny