Shortcuts to actions from list view

At least for now (whilst the Storm styles are as they are), i'm not going to commit this one - as you say, it is a different style to the rest of the display, and only saves 1 click.

However, i've tested the patch, which works, so if anyone wants to do this type of thing then the patch could be quite useful.

I'm happy to look at these type of things - but the thing that is making me hold back a bit is that adding these types of icon will add complexity to the tables, and also perhaps aren't very obvious at first glance what they do (in comparison perhaps to the + and - buttons).

OK I see a bit more what you mean now - how hard would it be to knock up a rough demo?

I've just reviewed and committed: #468294: Integration of Popups API (AJAX Dialogs)

Is this the type of thing that you were thinking for the new icon?

I'd like to hear what anybody else thinks - especially those who have a 'high' usage of Storm so would benefit most from the time savings.

Myself - currently, i'm not convinced that it will save time - a click to show the menu then a click to onto the action. Previously all these could be done by a click onto the ticket itself then to one of the links.

An idea I had was perhaps to have a setting for simple / advanced layouts, simple including the large links as currently, and advanced having smaller one-click actions - so adds the complexity that I wanted to avoid, but only for those who select to view it.

My point was more that if it is a setting, the complexity does not matter as much because a new user could turn it off.

Therefore, if the complexity is not as important, it could be a better option to use your previous example as this saves the click (and also the page load).

Sorry if i'm confusing matters here...

I like the idea of shortcut menu, maybe leaving Add icon directly, and having other icon for shortcut menu.
It would be useful for this feature, but also for other features (ex. i'm making module for budget tracking, and I needed simple/short way to add expenses to different budget items, and I have polluted table with different links and icons, but this is solution that I really like. I will try to implement it and report - but it looks great)

regarding easily adding time tracking to tasks/tickets/projects should we combine it (timetracking) with #346131: Online Timer? And how?

Nice, really nice :)

Only thing I have problem with is with storm popups: and is with closing of them - only way to close in on "X" button. It is usability issue, first idea, while I was playing with it is to close it 0.5 sec after pointer leaves popupbox. Or something else.

While you are making those changes for other modules, I will try to integrate popups api with those shortcuts, that could further increase usability of menu. Shouldn't be hard.

I'm still not convinced that this is ultimately the best way to go forward - the menu is ok but if there are any other suggestions on the table, it'd be great to hear them so that they can all be weighed up.

I don't have better idea for solving this, and it is a big problem. Since this is usable, I am very happy with it.
That, of course, does not mean that we can not think of something better, so let your ideas flow - not only solutions, but problems that you see with this one.

I'm coming round to the idea, but the think that's niggling me is that it takes additional clicks - but I suppose it really is only equivalent to opening or closing a fieldset or something - perhaps it is the way to do it though. I'll have a think.

In the meantime, i'm quite keen to hear from others too though - both new users and also those with higher usage who might benefit from extra speed.

No problems with an extra permission though - it'd be useful.

I've branched the permission discussion to #535016: New permission: 'Storm: access administration pages.

Could I leave you to post an issue for the shortcuts for filtering one with the details of what you're thinking? I don't know if #433294: Add filter status when lists are filtered is relevant at all to this - I think that will help usability a lot (think how the users list is filtered).

Afraid not this release.

However, the -dev shouldn't change too much between now and the release, and don't worry about keeping the patch up to date with minor changes.

The release normally causes a few more people to visit the issues lists though, so it will give a much better chance of a few more comments too.

I'll put it in - I think my hesitation on this issue is because i'm not a great fan of the way Storm does popups at the moment.

However - it will be a timesaver, and as @Mark_Watson27 says it can be enabled and disabled via the admin setting.

I've committed the icons, so here is an updated the patch to reflect that - noone need use the tarball anymore.