On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 06:21:23PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:43 AM Artur Frenszek-Iwicki > > <suve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'll forget the meaning and the numbers will go back to being visual clutter. It would be immensely helpful > > > to have some symbolic icons next to the numbers, which would allow to easily guess what each of them means. > > > > Sounds like you need to clear your browser cache or something, because > > there *are* symbols next to these numbers: > > https://decathorpe.fedorapeople.org/packager-dashboard.png > > I too can see the icons when I allow fontawesome.com, but few of them > help with understanding the numbers. The beetle for "bugs" and the > speech bubble for "comments" are pretty obvious, but I still have to > point to all the others to find out what they mean, and even then many > of them seem completely random. How does a lightning bolt symbolize > updates? What's the connection between a shield and priority? A > triangle, a circle and a square combine into "overrides"? There are two > different line chart icons. How does one remember which is which? And a > seatbelt apparently means "orphans" somehow. Hi Björn, I'll reply to your mail, but it's something that I wanted to express also in reply to some previous replies in this thread… It's valid to critique individual details of design, but I think it is important to remember that the page is _supposed_ to be "dense". It is intended to pack a lot of information into a small area, and it is also _intended_ to be used by a narrow group people over and over and over. I think a lot of the critisism that numbers are only shown with symbolic icons and that abbreviations are used, etc, applies the first few times one uses the page, and after a while one remembers what is what. And the page does have tooltips and help with that first few times. If anything, I expect that _more_ information will be packed into the page over time. > I assume that "PRs" stands for "pull requests". The icon for that is > the word "git". That's better than a random unrelated picture, but if a > picture is just text, then it should be actual text and not a picture. > It's also somewhat inaccurate because pull requests aren't a Git thing > but a concept that some web interfaces layer on top of Git. Strictly speaking, the concept of pull requests predate the web frontends. E-mail pull requests were part of the original way people used git… > Rather than hiding the intelligible words in mouseover boxes, it would > be better to write them directly on the screen instead of the icons. If > there is some idea that the icons should be language-independent, then > the beetle also fails. Software defects are not called insects in all > languages. > > > > Similarly, at the top of the page, I get a banner that informs me about FAS integration and says: > > > > After linking the dashboard with your FAS through the settings menu... > > > Which is all nice and dandy, but doing a Ctrl+F on the page for "settings" gives exactly one match - > > > that being the text in the banner. So there's no visible link to said "settings menu" anywhere. > > > How do I access it? > > > > The big "gear" icon (the almost universal symbol for "Settings") in > > the top panel should be what you're looking for. > > The gear is called "Options", and beside it is an icon called > "Customize dashboard". "Settings" could refer to either of those. It > would be nice to have consistent terminology, but hey, we can always > click on everything and explore. > > The gear icon is also misleading. It alludes to machinery in motion, so > it suggests a menu of commands to do things, rather than options or > settings. There is a wrench icon that would be a good symbol for > settings, but that apparently means Koschei. Yeah, the split between 'search' and 'Options' is not very clear. Maybe it'd make sense to change the gear icon to an eye icon, because there aren't settings there, but mostly switches to turn things on and off in the view. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
