Code review comment for lp:~bac/launchpad/bug-643538-code

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 21:07 +0000, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> You've said that other application pages have portlets, and that's
> true
> for the bugs app page, but in that case they have a significant amount
> of content (the tag cloud, pre-defined searches and action links),
> which
> is not the case here. Also, the translations app page, on the other
> hand, doesn't have any portlets, so I'm still not convinced the code
> app
> page should have them. Unless there's a policy I'm not aware of?

The intent of the features is to make the root pages for projects to use
the same layouts and conventions. Code is using a 2.0 layout still.
Translations remains a conundrum. The user should trust that global
actions and set searches are in the right portlets.

This feature work is driven by our own strategists complaint that users
see conflicting designs when they work across applications.

{{{

Hello Curtis, Strategons,

Attached are screenshots of each of the six tabs of Launchpad for a
newly created project.

I want you to look at them. Make a note of the fonts, the styling of
the action portlets, the alignment of cells, the busyness of the
pages, the balance of the layouts, the colours used, the amount of
text on each page.

You will notice that there is significant difference between each
page. If you look at the pages with a detached eye, you may well come
to the conclusion that none of them are very nice to look at.

I think that this is a problem. I don't mean to put down anyone on the
team, but I would be embarrassed to present on these pages at a
conference.

...

}}}

This lead to an extension of the bridging-the-gap theme in June.
Launchpad must state where services are hosted so that they can complete
their task. Launchpad must state when the service is unknown, hosted, or
external. The applications must behave the same way when unknown,
external, or hosted so that users know what to expect when they use
multiple applications.
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