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White space wasted on Issue overview page

Project:Project
Version:6.x-1.x-dev
Component:User interface
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (won't fix)

Issue Summary

When viewing an issue there is much wasted white space to the right of the Issue summary table.

See http://drupal.org/files/wasted-space-project-issue.png

I suggest we move the description into this white space area. The following CSS accomplishes this, but I think it might adversely affect other themes. If a CSS designer for Drupal themes could take a look and make sure I'm not destroying all that is holy in Drupal theme land, that would be most appreciated.

Here is a screenshot of my tweaks: http://drupal.org/files/wasted-space-project-issue_0.png

#project-issue-summary-table {
    float:left;
    padding:0 1em 0 0;
}

/* Remove clear-block style on #project-summary-container */

#comments {
    clear:both;
}
AttachmentSizeStatusTest resultOperations
wasted-space-project-issue.png46.98 KBIgnored: Check issue status.NoneNone
wasted-space-project-issue.png46.98 KBIgnored: Check issue status.NoneNone

Comments

#1

Annoyingly, I uploaded the wasted space image twice. Here is the updated image which shows the content flowing as I intended:
http://drupal.org/files/no-wasted-space-project-issue.png

AttachmentSizeStatusTest resultOperations
no-wasted-space-project-issue.png46.95 KBIgnored: Check issue status.NoneNone

#2

Wow, Ubuntu screenshot failed me, and then I failed to check the screenshots before uploading.

Final versions. Please forgive my overuploading.

AttachmentSizeStatusTest resultOperations
wasted-space-for-real.jpg144.5 KBIgnored: Check issue status.NoneNone
no-wasted-space-for-real.jpg173.49 KBIgnored: Check issue status.NoneNone

#3

Category:bug report» feature request
Status:needs review» postponed (maintainer needs more info)

A) Those are two identical screenshots, neither of which show the "wasted" space you're talking about, nor your proposed solution.

B) There's no bug here, you're asking for a new feature to make the issue pages more visually dense. I'm not sure that's going to improve readability, and I can't see based on your screenshots. ;)

Please post new screenshots and set this back to "active", unless you also post a patch to the .css files to implement your proposed change.

Thanks,
-Derek

#4

Status:postponed (maintainer needs more info)» active

Sorry, we cross posted. #2 contains real screenshots, thanks. ;) Back to active for consideration (since there's no patch here to actually review).

I think that makes the pages too dense, and there are some other ideas for things that could fill that space in the future in a way that wouldn't cause the description float around. Big -1 from me, but I'll let other folks take a look before I officially mark this "won't fix"... ;)

Cheers,
-Derek

#5

I agree with dww. I don't see the problem with having a little whitespace at the top. I think that for most browser sizes the issue description still starts "above the fold", so to speak. Granted, if you have a wide monitor and have your browser set to be quite wide, the top of the issue page looks a little empty, but for a width that I would consider more normal I think it looks fine.

#6

Status:active» closed (won't fix)

#430886: Make blocks entities is another counter-example. if you have a lot of issue tags, the whitespace is used up. I don't think I'm going to commit this, sorry.

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