On 2012-03-13 16:22, Philippe Cloutier wrote:
> Hi,
> this week Marc and I worked on some problems with trackers in an
> envionment where some users can export or administrate some trackers
> but not all trackers. We realized that Admin Trackers was poorly WYSIWYCA.
>
> After making Admin Trackers WYSIWYCA (see r40156), there are very
> differences left between Admin Trackers and List Trackers.
That should read "very *few* differences left"...
> Primarily, Admin Trackers offers actions on each tracker via icons.
> This is IMO something desirable when you are in List Trackers.
> Offering these from List Trackers would prevent confusion from new
> administrators who aren't yet used to our List vs Admin concept.
> Admin Trackers also offers to create new trackers with a tab and a
> button. Again, this is IMO desirable. One effect of this difference is
> that Admin Trackers uses tabs. A mere reader will only see a
> "Trackers" tab.
> Admin Trackers has an "Id" column. This is useful in some cases, but
> does clutter the interface a bit. I am not touching this column for
> now, but suggestions to find a balance between informing and
> cluttering would be welcome.
> And I think that's it.
>
> As I see very few general disadvantages with Admin Trackers instead of
> List Trackers, we are planning to merge the two. The only real
> usability regressions of Admin Trackers for the mere reader I see are
> the Action column, which at least contains a view link, and the Id
> column. The Action column could be conditionally removed when it would
> only contain view icons if others consider that effort as necessary
> for merging.
>
> If there are no objections, we may proceed to the merge as soon as
> tomorrow (in about 24 hours).
>
> Thank you
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