New subscription system doubles required clicks

[Adam Porter]

I suppose some people might find it useful to have more subscription options besides "get everything", though I'm skeptical about how many. But the problem I see now is that subscribing to a bug's mail now requires more clicks and more mousing around. All it took before was one click--a welcome simplicity among bug tracking systems. It was a pleasant breath of fresh air when the AJAX method was finally implemented. But now it's taken a step backwards.

I suggest that a one-click subscribe-to-everything link be put back, and that there be a separate link for more advanced subscription options. The time saved for the majority of users by being able to click once to subscribe to the most common option would outweigh the time lost to the occasional need to access more fine-grained subscription controls.

Quite simply, it would make Launchpad more pleasant to use, and undo a regression (always progress, please :).

[James-Robert Knight (thegreatjarokn)]

I second this, after all, ubuntu aims for simplicity and this would be a step backwards.

[Gary Poster (gary)]

Somewhat related: bug 799914