Comment 6 for bug 494040

As an upstream I'm so delighted to see this moving, and I'm sure many upstream and Ubuntu developers will be too. Almost anything you do here will be welcome.

Visually, it is a bit strange that the pencil is to the right and all the other buttons on that line are to the left. This seems consistent with the pencil in other places, but perhaps you could just dispense with it, or change it to some other icon and put it on the left. It's pretty obvious that you can click this to change it and the pencil (which few people recognize) is just noise.

Also this line is fairly wide and tending to wrap, so shorter text may be better.

> I wonder, too, if we need to move this to a better place on the page. It blends with the affects project/distro links too much, IMHO, as is.

This is a control we expect & want lots of users to click. Whereas all the others on that line are things that users generally shouldn't be clicking unless they really know what they're doing. So... maybe it should at least move to the start of that line, or a different line (which would also address the length issue.)

It seems that Launchpad counts both the number of people who clicked "yes, it affects me" vs "no it doesn't affect me". If that is true, then perhaps it would be appropriate to say something like "This bug affects 5 out of 12 people, including me." It is possibly useful to developers to see that many people looked at this bug and decided it wasn't theirs. On the other hand it may just be noise.

I think Gavin's text is pretty good. If I imagine changing the pronouns in any sentence so that it said for instance "this bug affects you and five people" it sounds weird, as if the computer is asserting something it doesn't really know, which was mpt's point.

Of course there are other cases for anonymous access and for bugs with zero votes. You could probably fix bug 362830 in passing by simply saying "This bug affects me" when there are zero votes.

hth