It is difficult to click Reply and Edit buttons in ticket change when only properties are changed

[Jun Omae]

Since Trac 1.2, Reply and Edit buttons in ticket change are shown when cursor is hovered in the ticket change.

However, when the ticket change has only properties changes and no comment, the buttons are shown only when cursor is hovered in property changes box. As the results, it is difficult to click the buttons.

Live demo: demo-1.2/ticket/2

Work around to make the buttons visible when cursor is hovered in entire of div.change:

trac/htdocs/css/ticket.css

@@ -219 +219 @@
  box-shadow: .1em .2em 1em #eee;
 }
 div.change, ul.children { clear: both; }
+div.change:after {
+ content: "";
+ display: block;
+ clear: both;
+ height: 0;
+}
 
 .changes th {
  text-align: right;

[Christian Boos]

Replying to Jun Omae:

… the buttons are shown only when cursor is hovered in property changes box. As the results, it is difficult to click the buttons.

But also the whole <h3> line as well, in particular the comment:n part which is just above the buttons. But I think you're right anyway, it's not as obvious as it should be.

If you remember my idea presented recently on trac-dev about a "page menu" (​gmessage:trac-dev:eVU0q8Tatgo/pokz_FIyEQAJ), I think it could be transposed here as well: we would have a permanent menu reminder character/icon (▤, ≣), which would show the list of actions for the comment when hovered / clicked.

Something like:

comment:n Modified by Author

≣

[Ryan J Ollos]

Issue also raised in ​gmessage:trac-users:CeulDlFVzhM/cPKg1-y2AQAJ.

[Christian Boos]

See also ticket:12639#comment:17.

[Christian Boos]

I've applied your suggestion on 1.2-stable in r15522.

However for trunk, I'd rather go with what I'll do with the new "action menu" (#12685). So I didn't merge this change up for now, we'll see how this works out.