Launchpad itself

Not obvious how to remove a bug's duplicate marking

Bug #50108 reported by Kenny Duffus
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Ian Booth

Bug Description

The current method of saying that a bug marked as a duplicate is not actually a duplicate is to click the edit button next to "Duplicate of bug #NNN", delete the number from the text field, and click the checkmark button. This is quite unintuitive.

(An alternative design is shown in <https://launchpad.canonical.com/DuplicateBugHandling>.)

(Fixing this bug would also fix bug 133622.)

See original description

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lp://staging/~wallyworld/launchpad/remove-dupe-link-133622
Curtis Hovey (community): Approve (code)
Diff: 337 lines (+142/-9)
7 files modified
lib/lp/bugs/browser/bug.py (+25/-2)
lib/lp/bugs/browser/tests/test_bug_views.py (+52/-0)
lib/lp/bugs/javascript/bug_picker.js (+36/-1)
lib/lp/bugs/javascript/bugtask_index.js (+1/-0)
lib/lp/bugs/javascript/tests/test_duplicates.js (+23/-1)
lib/lp/bugs/stories/bugs/xx-duplicate-of-private-bug.txt (+1/-1)
lib/lp/bugs/stories/guided-filebug/xx-displaying-similar-bugs.txt (+4/-4)
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
description: updated
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → gmb
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

Graham, is this really in progress?

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Graham Binns (gmb) wrote :

This is no longer applicable with the advent of in-line duplicate marking

Changed in malone:
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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Endolith (endolith) wrote :

How is this no longer applicable?

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

The FormOverlay suffers from exactly the same issue.

Changed in malone:
status: Won't Fix → New
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Graham Binns (gmb) wrote :

You're right, William. I was referring to the in-page UI, but the overlay doesn't clarify matters.

Changed in malone:
status: New → Triaged
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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 50108] Re: Not obvious how to remove a bug's duplicate marking

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:57:21PM -0000, William Grant wrote:
> The FormOverlay suffers from exactly the same issue.

Agreed. It's a bit more obvious now, but the form is still confusing.
There should be a radio button, or some other explicit way of saying
that the bug isn't a duplicate anymore.

    status triaged

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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote :

The emergent standard for this sort of UI interaction is to include a removal action on the overlay itself. The action icon can be composed of the (-) removal icon and a green link.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Reusing the removal action pattern would make sense for people who understand a duplicate marking as being an entity that you can delete -- for example, people familiar with the Launchpad database schema. For everyone else, though, I predict that it would make little sense: I think they understand a duplicate marking as being an assertion about a bug report, not an entity in itself.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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MarcRandolph (mrand) wrote :

It would be much more obvious if at least the word "Duplicate" was part of the click-able link, just like all the other items in the same UI box (Convert to a question, Link a related branch, and Link to CVE).

I'm not too proud to admit I wasted a silly amount of time trying to find that I'm supposed to click the icon.

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Alvin (alvind) wrote :

You can no longer use Konqueror to unmark as duplicate too.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Alvin, that's not this bug, that's bug 394189.

Graham Binns (gmb)
Changed in malone:
assignee: Graham Binns (gmb) → nobody
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

see also 759348 which is a bit different: right after duping, there is no way to undupe.

Robert Collins (lifeless)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
tags: added: easy
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: bug-links
Ian Booth (wallyworld)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Ian Booth (wallyworld)
tags: added: disclosu
tags: added: disclosure
removed: disclosu
Ian Booth (wallyworld)
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: confusing-ui privacy-transitions qa-ok
removed: easy
Ian Booth (wallyworld)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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TomasHnyk (sup) wrote :

May I ask what has changed? I do not notice anything. Or does Fix released mean it is not on production launchpad yet?

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

The form nor has a link to remove the duplicate bug. You do not need to guess that the the bug number must be deleted from the form field.

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TomasHnyk (sup) wrote :

Ah, now I see it. Is is much more obvious now (once you stumble across the small edit icon, but that one is standard on launchpad, so no complaints there:-)).

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