Comment 15 for bug 3152

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:52:48AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I'm delighted this is being worked on, but I'm bothered at how long it
> took me to find the new links in the mockups, even though I knew what I
> was looking for. I think "grey box on the right side of the page" is a
> Launchpad anti-pattern.

Well I can't say I'm a huge fan either, but Launchpad uses this design
pattern quite extensively for similar chunks of information throughout
the bug pages.

> A non-grey-box presentation could be much simpler. One sentence, below
> the bug listing: "See also bugs reported about Jokosher in _Ubuntu
> (42)_, _Debian (42)_, and _Fedora (4234)_."
>
> Similarly on the project overview page: "Jokosher is packaged in
> _Ubuntu_, _Debian_, _Slackware_, and _Fedora_. (_Others?_)"

One thing we ought to keep in mind esp. in considering other designs, is
there is potentially quite a number of distributions that could show up
in this list.

With where it is in the current mockup, I figure it could probably grow
to 15 items or so before it needs cut off. With it implemented as links
in a sentence, probably 4-5 items would be a limit. Distrowatch lists
11 distros on its main page (13 if you count RHEL and SLES as distinct
from Fedora and OpenSUSE).