Missing "read more" link for large truncated comments
Bug #2027799 reported by
Andreas Hasenack
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When a bug commend is deemed to large to be displayed in full, launchpad offers a "download full text" link at the begginning, an used to show a "Read more" link at the bottom.
The difference between the two is that the "Download" link does exactly that, downloads a text file, and the "Read more" link allowed you to read the full comment in the browser.
The "Read more" link seems to be gone, at least from the bugs I have been interacting with. An example is comment #13 of https:/
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| tags: | added: bugs ui |
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| Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote | #1 |
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Heh, I missed Andreas's bug. I opened a question with very similar thoughts:
Hello, there was a discussion in ~launchpad [1] about the limits of characters for when a comment will receive the "download full text" link and when a comment will receive the "view full comment" (or similar text) link.
I can completely understand why launchpad won't render the entire contents of large comments in a bug view. I can sort of understand why launchpad won't render the entire contents of a very large comment on the individual comment view page, but the current limit feels pretty low.
I think each comment header should have three buttons:
- one to download the comment
- one to view the comment in a 'styled' view on a page of its own
- one to view the comment in a 'raw' view (delivered as text/plain)
(I use https:/
Viewing comments in the browser is usually more convenient than needing to use external programs. Offering even a 'raw' view without the pretty styling / html escaping / etc is a step up in convenience. (It would even be useful for short comments that include copy-and-paste of terminal output! How often have you seen useless ls or zpool status or tree output, because the html output crunched all the spaces and tabs?)
Thanks
[1]: https:/