Comment 7 for bug 894442

Thanks for the comments about how the new design affects your use of Launchpad's bug tracker.

The first thing I'll say is that I'll ask Huw, who designed the new bug listings layout, to look at ways we might reduce the vertical space needed for each entry in the list.

There are a couple of things I'd like to mention, though. The old bug listings design was great for people with wide screen resolutions. If you have a common laptop resolution and you don't maximise the window, it's quite possible for ordinary bug listings to split onto two lines; particularly if you have a lengthy bug title and a "Fix Committed" status.

According to Google Analytics, at least 51.6% of visit to Launchpad over the past year were from people operating at a screen width of 1366 px or below.

We were going to make the problem worse for smaller screen users by making it possible to add more columns, such as bug age, tags, assignee, etc. So, we'd end up seeing horizontal scrolling and/or more spitting onto two lines at those lower resolutions.

So, we wanted to avoid making a page that would just get wider and wider, as that wouldn't provide a good experience for many people.

tl;dr: smaller screen sizes are more common amongst Launchpad users than you might expect. We'll look at what we can do to improve the experience for people with wider screens who value seeing as many bugs at one time as possible.