Mahara

Home folder in the files area is confusing for some users

Bug #854305 reported by Richard Mansfield
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mahara
Fix Released
Wishlist
Richard Mansfield
Mahara 1.5.0

Bug Description

A user said this:

"At first I thought the Home hyperlink/button did not work, but then when I created folders I noticed it’s a breadcrumb nav tool.

Home does not need to be there when you are at home because you click it & it does nothing. Call it "My Files" or remove it."

I'll submit a patch to hide the folder navigation when viewing the Home folder, however, if people think it'd be better to rename it to My Files, I'll do that instead, or we can do nothing.

Tags: usability
Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)
Changed in mahara:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)
milestone: none → 1.5.0
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François Marier (fmarier) wrote :

https://reviews.mahara.org/#change,712

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Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield) wrote :

Comment by Francois from https://reviews.mahara.org/#change,712:

"I don't actually like this from a usability standpoint, I find that the appearance / disappearance of that option is confusing.

How about this instead:

    * Home is displayed but it's not a link when you're in your homedir
    * Home turns into a link when you enter subdirectory1
    * Subdirectory1 is not a link unless you enter once of its children suddirectories"

The reporter of this bug is happy with that solution, so we'll do that instead.

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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/712
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/2f8065f945e1428b00681bdb8fffeba7754a38e4
Submitter: Francois Marier (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 2f8065f945e1428b00681bdb8fffeba7754a38e4
Author: Richard Mansfield <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Sep 21 15:54:08 2011 +1200

    Disable link to the current folder in the files area (bug #854305)

    Change-Id: Ie834304c59371590908b020470c0421ddb8564db
    Signed-off-by: Richard Mansfield <email address hidden>

François Marier (fmarier)
Changed in mahara:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Melissa Draper (melissa) wrote :

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Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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