Consider improving the web UI

Bug #1872830 reported by Junaid Ahmed
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Launchpad looks like a webpage of 1990. While some aspect of it (translator, some features of bug tracker, integrated build system) makes it exceptional from others, it's web interface is complicated and hard to use. Even reading text requires effort due to font rendering and size, all the comments looks like code samples and reading it for some time tires eyes. Improving the UI will greatly improve the user experience and might also attract new projects to Launchpad.

Tags: ui
summary: - Please redesign/ improve the web UI
+ Consider improving the web UI
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

I imagine migrating from YUI and AJAX to HTML5 and the Vanilla Framework is a cost-prohibitive endeavor, since other Canonical-developed web apps have always kept up with modern web technologies. Consider this a wishlist item.

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Migrating to Vanilla is certainly something we're considering, but it's mainly waiting for Canonical's web team to have some time to help us out with it. We've done some preliminary work recently to make our CSS build process more compatible with what any Vanilla migration is likely to need.

Ioana Lasc (ilasc)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Tom Wardill (twom)
assignee: Tom Wardill (twom) → nobody
importance: Critical → Medium
status: In Progress → Triaged
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → High
description: updated
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