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Bug 161756

Summary:	Ambiguous elements in Artifact details view
Product:	projects	Reporter:	Jaroslav Pospisil <jpospisil>
Component:	Maven	Assignee:	David Simonek <dsimonek>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	mkleint
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Jaroslav Pospisil 2009-04-02 12:49:23 UTC

If you open some library's Artifact Details view, there's many ambiguous elements in the view. Multiple non-editable
textboxes or text-areas versus editable textareas and listboxes, mostly in Basic and Project tab. 
I think we should distinguish editable and non-editable controls and display second group as labels.

Comment 1 Milos Kleint 2009-04-02 13:53:14 UTC

AFAIK, there's nothing editable around. 
The non-editable textfields, textareas might be better since labels don't properly handle long values. They don't keep
the proportions correctly on the page and expand indefinitely.

-1 on this I would close it as wontfix. labels are bad for value display. Up to dafe's discression though.

Comment 2 David Simonek 2009-05-12 15:15:30 UTC

From my UI point of view, non-editable text fields are bad for displaying information, labels are better. If carefully
laid out (for example using GridBagLayout) they don't expand anywhere.

However, I'm thinking of larger rearrange which would include this request (which is more RFE then defect IMHO), so I'm
going to create new enhancement and make this a duplicate.

Comment 3 David Simonek 2009-05-12 16:00:13 UTC

Included in 164973, marking as duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 164973 ***