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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0021724 | mantisbt | ui | public | 2016-09-28 07:48 | 2021-05-29 17:08 |
Reporter | cproensa | Assigned To | syncguru | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
Product Version | 2.0.0-beta.2 | ||||
Fixed in Version | 2.2.0 | ||||
Summary | 0021724: Improve visibility of status colors | ||||
Description | In the new ui, the status colors are reducted to a small square on the status field. This gives a cleaner overall style. However, i find it difficult to visually identify issues status, since the colored area is very small to really stand out. Older ui was easier in this point, but still wasn't very modern looking. See attached sketch for modifying the background color of the status field. This improves visibility, and still keep the layout clean. Can this be considered, at least, as an optional style? | ||||
Tags | modern-ui | ||||
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I remember having this discussion with syncguru a while back, but I can't find it now. I personally like the bigger colored areas reflecting the issue status as per your suggestions. |
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my suggestion is by no means a definite proposal, only the raw idea, to show the difference When showing the new ui to some of my users, one of the first complaints that appears is the poor visual feedback for issue status. |
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I'd really like to get more feedback from the team. |
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That's why the user at 0021897 uses more saturated colors. I will ask some of my users to get some more feedback. |
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imho, having more saturated colors, like that showed in the referenced issue, breaks the general look & style. I sse it quite "ugly" |
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when i present the new ui, my users would like to see the whole row in status color, again. |
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Thanks, @hans peter, for pointing this out. My users have the same wish. |
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I am working since about two weeks with the new UI on a daily basis. Let your users work some weeks with the new UI. This is too much in my opinion
proposal of cproensa should be enough
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Hello! Chiming in that my team has been using the new UI for several weeks and really struggling with the new color scheme. The ease of quickly visually scanning the issues was the primary reason we adopted Mantis, and now that it's gone we're spending more time figuring out what our development priorities are on a daily basis. Lost time is lost money, and if there aren't plans to address this we're probably going to switch back to Pivotal Tracker. cproensa's design is great, as is the old full <tr> paradigm - really anything that fixes this problem (even as a non-default options setting) would be immensely helpful. |
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@handwovenpdx, in case this is a major urgent issue for you: You can run a parallel installation of 1.3 and connect to the same database to where your 2.0 installation is connected. |
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@atrol, @cproensa To be clear on my position here, I don't like status colors to be dominant in the page. It is not a good design practice, but I am willing to concede if I can see evidence of similar usage in other popular apps. |
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I totally agree with @atrol, it takes a bit of time to get used to. I prefer the new approach. It may not work for 100% of people, but so far it seems that the majority of feedback has been very positive, with no complains about status not being easy to recognize. |
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I personally can't get used to.
I can perfectly distinguish github color labels. The issue here is a problem of a repetition pattern and inconvenient shape of the color area.
Status colors were a defining trait in mantis, that should be good enough reason to consider how it's presented. There is no need to lose it just for the reason of being like the other.
The current implementation may also be a not good design practice, as i have explained. |
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Hi, the OP of 0021897 here. I am speaking from the position of myself having slight color impairment. But consider this: when you go to the store to buy the paint for painting the room or the house. Hope this helps |
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Edit page still has color background |
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Do you have data to support this claim? The data I have indicate a very limited use. Given the option to switch back to Classic UI, over 90% chose not to. This cannot be a 'defining trait'.
Please refer to ""Don't Make Me Think"" for more of what good and what's not. https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515 Despite my statement, I am not against having a configuration option to address the needs of the small user base who may need that, like @Chris_Z; I just don't want to do for the wrong reasons. |
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English is not my native language so i may have not communicated what i mean. Mantis has been using prominently status colors for many years. How is not that a defining trait?
That is not the point. I'm not saying going back to classic ui. The point here is: if we are using status colors, use it in an effective way.
I have tried to explain why the current status color presentation is not efficient, from my personal experience. Again, we are not discussing "current vs old" implementation, but current vs a possibly better one.
We are advancing then, some time ago you were suggesting maintaining a fork |
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at my office, we too would like a clearer at-a-glance view of the different statuses (and we have even configured more of them than the default setup) I do second the request to use the status color at least as a background for the status column |
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I moved the Scribus tracker to Mantis 2.0 recently and I agree, we certainly miss the backgrounds showing the status. The proposal in Selección_160.png would be ok for us. Ideally I'd like to see 3 options but understand that might be too hard:
thanks |
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i am not a fan of doing things, because others do things the other way. design is a matter of opinion. when 90% think, it's cool to look like the other 90%, then ok, let them ride their way. i don't like to ride a long the coloured square way. so, 0021724:0055244 is a great suggestion. |
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Hi, columns_api.php
bug_view_inc.php
but we should have it configurable instead. |
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Additionally to the background color, it'd be interesting to add status_text_color to be used when the foreground and background are very similar (event an status_link_color as well) |
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Another option, which could satisfy a lot of people (old style + new modern style) would be to use a very narrowed cell just for the visual feedback without text inside, like the bootstrap callout visual effect |
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@Bozz I am not sure I understand what you mean with it. Could you provide a mockup? |
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I think he means something like this, although I wouldn't make it <i>too</i> narrow. |
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Sometimes other products offer the possibility of a special setting for color blindness. Normally, this add some pattern in addition of colour. Although this is not the case, that setting it's interesting. Keep it in mind as one more option to solve this. |
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Hi, here is an example (see attachement).
We could transpose the technique to the view issue details page as well. Voilà for the mockup. I hope you'll find it inspiring :-) |
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I think the callout would work better if the color was at the beginning of the row and a bit larger. It looks weird in the middle of the table and it's almost as difficult to spot as the current small square, IMHO |
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The color should not be separated from the status value. |
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waiting for this issue to be addressed, I've created a plugin that moves the color to the background of the status column, pretty much like the mockup in the first note. If anyone is interested, it's available at https://github.com/wiz78/BetterStatusColors |
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With that example i can identify the colors better than current squares. |
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I like @bozz suggestions. Just for the record, that's how Jira shows issue type colors. |
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Fogbugz, JIRA and Redmine do not mark status with colors. For other things / columns - an icon is often used (similar to Mantis 2.0), but noone uses entire background. |
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@syncguru To test your solution I applied your changes to see how it works in production. Discovered just one minor glitch -- web browser seemed to insist on displaying the status color indicator with the old size until I rectified it with a forced Ctrl-F5 total refresh. Best! |
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@Chris_Z - Glad to hear! |
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MantisBT: master 7ba24586 2017-01-29 16:07 Committer: dregad Details Diff |
Enlarge status color box & remove black frame Fixes 0021897 and improves visibility of status color (issue 0021724). |
Affected Issues 0021724, 0021897 |
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mod - bug_view_inc.php | Diff File | ||
mod - core/bug_group_action_api.php | Diff File | ||
mod - core/columns_api.php | Diff File | ||
mod - core/custom_function_api.php | Diff File | ||
mod - core/relationship_api.php | Diff File | ||
mod - css/ace-mantis.css | Diff File | ||
mod - css/status_config.php | Diff File | ||
mod - my_view_inc.php | Diff File |