#767152 consider expanding the version graph on mouseover

Package:
debbugs
Source:
debbugs
Submitter:
"Karl O. Pinc"
Date:
2015-02-22 18:39:10 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#767152#5
Date:
2014-10-28 19:03:09 UTC
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To:
Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: minor

Hi,

The graphic graph that appears in the upper right of the pages
of individual bugs would be entirely incomprehensible were it not
for the URLs that appear in the browser on mouseover.

For reference, attached is a copy of the image for bug #683854.
Note that it cannot be read even when blown up 400% since
the text in it is entirely too pixelated.

Perhaps the image could be made a svg so at least it could
be read when enlarged?


For your bug-stomping pleasure, here are two other
bug.debian.org bugs which may or may not be related
to the graphic:  Bug #538312, Bug #609687
(The latter is probably not related.)

Regards,
Karl
#767152#10
Date:
2014-10-28 19:13:22 UTC
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To:
I assume you've noticed that the reason for the URL appearing is that
you can click on the image to get a larger version of the graph?

Regards,

Adam
#767152#15
Date:
2014-10-28 19:33:48 UTC
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I assumed that clicking on the various nodes would take
me to information specific to that node.  (I'm kind of
leery about clicking on things when I don't know what they
do.)

Might be nicer if mouseover expanded the graphic...

Perhaps then this bug should be downgraded to a
"wishlist"?


Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein
#767152#20
Date:
2014-10-28 19:48:50 UTC
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do is to shrink it even further to make it obviously not
readable.  The graphic elements should be recognizable
(and have whatever utility they have) at at least 1/2
the present linear dimensions.

(It's the Ye-Olde-Edward-Tufte argument of reducing
distraction and making every pixel count.)

Regards,

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein
#767152#23
Date:
2014-10-28 19:13:48 UTC
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Just click on the image. The size is currently a trade off between being
readable and not being in the way of everything else on the page. [These
graphs get *huge*, and the shapes and colors are sometimes more
informative than the actual names.]

If you want it as an SVG, that works too; just change format=png in the
url to format=svg. I don't have that as an option, because the blown up
png is generally large enough.
#767152#28
Date:
2014-10-29 15:15:09 UTC
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Control: retitle -1 consider expanding the version graph on mouseover
Control: severity -1 wishlist

This is possible, but it would mean that mousing over did the same thing
that clicking on the image did, and would require javascript to actually
do the right thing and avoid downloading the image on every page view.

I don't really think that's desirable, but I could be convinced
otherwise.

In very simple cases, it might still be readable. The maximum size of
the graph is fixed; it'll handle simple cases (linear tree, one fixed
version, one found version), but when the graph gets bigger, it's not
readable.
#767152#37
Date:
2014-10-29 15:34:48 UTC
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to expand the image.  Something akin to what's seen on
e-commerce sites for product display.

Anyhow, this can't be that important so feel free to
file this report as desired.


Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein