ticket status is too easy to not see

[Chris Petersen <xris*siliconmechanics.com>]

I almost prefer the old status, up near the title. The new status is easy to miss. Should at least color it red or something so that it stands out from the other less important information in that section.

My preference would be to put it in with the list of stuff like "reported by" (on its own line), and color the text according to user styles (defaulting to something like dark yellow for new tickets, green for assigned, and red for closed or need info — see #1989).

[anonymous]

I might suggest looking at how bugzilla.gnome.org handles the top of the bug page: ​http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334041

The most relevant information (title, component, version, status/resolution) is up near the top, and uneditable, so as not to be too busy. You can edit it, if you need to (which is rarely) down at the bottom of the page.

I might also note that in the current ticket layout for trac, ticket # (which is really not very useful information, if you think about it, except in specialized cases) is *bigger* than the ticket summary. They should at least be the same size, and IMHO, the summary should be bigger than the ticket size.

[Christian Boos]

I'd suggest the following:

ticket.css

@@ -13 +13 @@
  position: relative;
 }
 #ticket h2.summary { margin: 0 }
-#ticket h3.status { color: #996; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal; margin-top: .5em; }
+#ticket h3.status { color: #666; font-weight: normal; margin-top: .5em; }
 #ticket .date { color: #996; float: right; font-size: 85%; position: relative }
 #ticket .date p { margin: 0 }

[Christian Boos]

Alternative layout: Ticket #xyz (status) . and Type: this is the summary.

[Christian Boos]

Even better: try out attachment:ticket_type_status_reordering-r3387.patch​

[Christian Boos]

Another layout, variation on the above: Ticket #xyz (new enhancement) or Ticket #xyz (closed defect: duplicate)

[Christian Boos]

fixing link

[Christian Boos]

Latest patch integrated in r3396, except for the status color which is now nearly black ;)