confusing UI to delete branches

Bug #260626 reported by Andrea Corbellini
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Martin Albisetti

Bug Description

The icon to delete the branch near the title is very small and hard to see. Some text near the icon and/or a link in the sidebar would help.

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João Pinto (joaopinto) wrote :

I feel the same about the "Change branche details" small icon, if you look at the project overview page, the same small "change details" is labeled with the text description which makes it much easier to locate/understand.

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Well.. now that you know where it is is it less of a mystery?

Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
status: New → Incomplete
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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) wrote :

Surely when someone finds it, it is easy to delete a branch, but what about new users?

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

They are inconvenienced. I agree with you that the link is undiscoverable because I myself couldn't find it the first time I tried to. I just asked to make sure that the discoverability was the fundamental issue.

Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

We'll fix this :)

Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
assignee: nobody → beuno
Jonathan Lange (jml)
Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

We've got a trash can now -- is this fixed?

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 260626] Re: Cannot easily delete branches

2009/3/10 Jonathan Lange <email address hidden>:
> We've got a trash can now -- is this fixed?

The trash can is still kind of small and hard to click, and this is
made worse because these icons are not aligned but scattered along the
rocky eastern coast of the text. Also, some of these icons are
reportedly hard to distinguish for colorblind users.

As another bug says, there's also a confusion between items like edit
that affect the particular item they're next to like the title, and
actions that affect the whole page.

I think major actions that affect the whole object represented by the
page are better shown as regular button such as "Delete branch".

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote : Re: Cannot easily delete branches

I'm talking to Martin Pool now.

In summary, "no, this bug is not fixed". Martin believes that there is a deeper, underlying problem here, which is that there's no visual language for representing whole object actions. In particular, both he and Tim think that there should be a conceptually big button that says "Delete this branch" in text and also includes the trash icon.

Martin Pool believes that there should a general pattern that POST actions that return to the same page should always be done with buttons, or at least always grouped as the same.

As a concrete fix to this bug that *doesn't* involve major global UI design, we could move the trash (and pencil) icons down from after the branch title to the same area where "Propose for merging into another branch" is. We'd then have:

  (+) Propose for merging into another branch
  (/) Edit this branch
  (T) Delete this branch

Martin Pool (mbp)
summary: - Cannot easily delete branches
+ confusing UI to delete branches
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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

Fixed in 3.0

Changed in launchpad-code:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
milestone: none → 3.0
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