Dropdown box for source code rendering is slow to use

[Dustin Kirkland ]

The dropdown links require two clicks to see a file, are not alphabetically sorted (see comment 3 of bug 1203583), and do not support quick string search (e.g. with Ctrl-F).

Original report:

The dropbox form element for choosing the file for source code rendering isn't very user friendly.

Instead, the collection of links provided by the manage.jujucharms.com interface is much easier to navigate.

Especially for a large charm with *lots* of files, like Apache2. It has many hooks, and it's a lot easier to see all of them in front of me at once, and use Ctrl-f to find the one I'm looking for (website-relation-joined).

In the dropbox approach, it's really difficult, involves multiple clicks, and it's difficult to find files.

[Richard Harding (rharding)]

We initially had design ideas to list the source files down the left side of the charm details and open the source next to it. That might help, but we killed that due to the complex "3-wide" issues it brought up in the sidebar view where the sidebar, then the list of files, and then content would require some separation help.

Perhaps a revisit to the idea would be useful.

[Gary Poster (gary)]

Also see bug 1203583 for less important issue in the same space

[Gary Poster (gary)]

Luca, assigning to you but please make sure we have talked about goals when you are ready to consider.