Commit Dropdown 2nd round

[jdupre81]

Based on feedback from the renku meeting on 23 Feb., it has been suggested to Extend the commit message to 2 or more lines in order to read the complete message.

Currently the message is shown in one short line with 3 dots. See screenshot, column 4

[jdupre81]

here is the edited design with 2 lines for the commit message on viewport width 800 and max. 3 lines (...) for width 550 px

For small viewport devices I will suggest to keep the current layout

[jdupre81]

[jdupre81]

[jdupre81]

[jdupre81]

the slightly difference between the last 2 designs is just the text alignment for the date.

[lorenzo-cavazzi]

Thank you @jdupre81
A valuable comment from the last Renku meeting.
We can use a fixed-width font (E.G. courier new or similar) for the commit SHA -- it's pretty standard for repository management platforms

[jdupre81]

oh, that's sth. new for me. But yes, sure, if this is a good solution then just go for it :)

Questions:
Should I change the design in figma with that Font ?..
Do we have decided which design proposal do we want to use?.

[lorenzo-cavazzi]

Updating the mockups is probably not needed since it's a small change, but I let this to you 🙂

I strongly prefer the 2 lines versions (more seem to waste vertical space). I'm fine with all of them, not sure whether users generally prefer fixed-width columns.

P.S. About the commit SHA, it's not a rule written in stone but you can see the pattern in many places. This is an example from a random page on GitHub, the commit SHA has a monospace font

Generally speaking, this applies also to code. Compare the following 2:

• Normal font

abcd1234

• Font for code

abcd1234

[ciyer]

I like the second-to-last one best (commit message on second line, time display aligned as a column). It may also make sense to show the commit message first, since this is often the most useful piece of information. E.g., this from the design proposal from a couple of years ago.:

[jdupre81]

Final design:

• SHA with monospace font.
• UI Team agreed on the commit message on second line and time displayed aligned as a column.

[lorenzo-cavazzi]

Renku 2.0 doesn't have the same concept of starting from a commit, and we don't need to refine the older interface further.
I'm closing this issue. Feel free to open a new one if you think there are still reasons to consider improvements to the commits dropdown.