Closed Bug 216256 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

The input-form is way too complicated

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95923

People

(Reporter: asbjorn, Assigned: justdave)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 The <form> to make comments, change status and other stuff about a bug is way too complicated to use for beginners. When I want to make a comment on a bug, it's even difficult to know what to do. I'm pretty confident in where to write the comment (in the "Additional comments" <textarea>), but while the submit button of that form has tha caption "commit", i'm not sure wether it's the right button to push. «Commit? I'm not commiting anything, I'm going to post a comment!» The form should be simpler for the less advanced users; in general those with lesser rights on bugzilla.mozilla.org. Why can I (seemingly) change "Product" and other details of a bug when I'm not allowed to do so? Why display the form-elements I can't do anything with at all? My suggestion is that you remove all form-elements which the user can't change the contents of, and if that means that the user only is presented with the "Additional comments" <textarea> and a submit button, it's good. Also, if you change the caption of the submit button to "post comment" in this case, it would be very user-friendly and understandable. It's also more logical to have the comment-form underneath the comments, and not above. This is only a minor issue, though, and not so important if all the other things are fixed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. View a bug Actual Results: The comment form contains way too many fields and information. Expected Results: The unchangable fields should be removed from the form (and maybe rather displayed as plain text).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95923 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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