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When working every day with JIRA/Bugzilla tasks in Mylyn, I've noticed few areas where I think Task editor in Mylyn could offer improved usability. *Description section* * Make "Preview" a default mode for the description area of existing issues ** 90% of the time, when working with existing bugs/tasks/issues, I am only interested in _reading_ the description, not editing it. ** In the rare case when I need to edit it, I will have to make a conscious action to switch to "edit mode", which can actually be a good thing. * Expand the description area in preview mode to show the entire content of the rendered description without (vertical) scrollbars. * Lose the widget border around the description area in preview mode (if it is possible, that is...) *Attributes section* * Make it read-only by default for existing tasks and add a switch to display the section content in "edit mode" ** Same reasoning as for description area - explicit step to enter "edit mode" implies conscious decision and reduces accidental edits. ** Read-only mode contains less clutter (edit widget borders, buttons, etc.) and is more easily readable ** Read-only mode can also host some advanced controls like links for URL's and some advanced rendering for tags, further improving the readability of these fields -- Configuration Details -- Product: Eclipse 1.2.0.20090619-0620 (org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product) Installed Features: org.eclipse.mylyn_feature 3.2.2.v20090912-0400-e3x
Thank you for your suggestions Roland. I have commented below. > *Description section* > * Make "Preview" a default mode for the description area of existing issues This has already been implemented in the latest version of Mylyn. > * Expand the description area in preview mode to show the entire content of the > rendered description without (vertical) scrollbars. This is the case. The description is dynamically resized if it is long. > * Lose the widget border around the description area in preview mode (if it is > possible, that is...) We tried that but it didn't look particularly with a scroll bar. Dynamically showing the border turned out to be to confusing. > *Attributes section* > * Make it read-only by default for existing tasks and add a switch to display > the section content in "edit mode" The current approach is to use light weight borders and subtle edit affordances. The problem with controls that switch from read-only to edit mode is that it becomes more difficult to discover that the control is actually editable which is a very frequent usage for a lot Mylyn users. To make it more explicit which fields have been changed we'll improve the presentation of outgoing changes in the future and also improve undo to revert accidental edits (bug 198501). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256699 ***
