trac: show tooltip of standard keywords on ticket-modify pages #1271

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warner · 2010-11-27T20:36:04Z

warner commented

2010-11-27 20:36:04 +00:00

I'm constantly forgetting how to spell our "magic" keyword tags: the ones listed at the top of ViewTickets like "review-needed", "news-needed", and the batch of taxonomy tags like "integrity" and "scalability". We don't currently have the display/autocompletion/suggestion features necessary to make our "folksonomy" converge: each new person filing a ticket or changing the keywords has no feedback to nudge them towards using existing tags instead of making up new ones.

It'd be nice if there were a list of at least for our most specific tags (like review-needed), displayed next to the "Keywords:" field on the "Modify Ticket" panel. Or a "help/?" icon which pops up a list of them, or a tooltip which shows a list of 5 tags when you hover over the Keywords string, or something like that.

I'm constantly forgetting how to spell our "magic" keyword tags: the ones listed at the top of [ViewTickets](wiki/ViewTickets) like "review-needed", "news-needed", and the batch of taxonomy tags like "integrity" and "scalability". We don't currently have the display/autocompletion/suggestion features necessary to make our "folksonomy" converge: each new person filing a ticket or changing the keywords has no feedback to nudge them towards using existing tags instead of making up new ones. It'd be nice if there were a list of at least for our most specific tags (like review-needed), displayed next to the "`Keywords:`" field on the "Modify Ticket" panel. Or a "help/?" icon which pops up a list of them, or a tooltip which shows a list of 5 tags when you hover over the Keywords string, or something like that.

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zooko commented

2010-11-27 20:56:19 +00:00

Good idea. What I currently do is open the ViewTickets page and look through it for keywords, but what you suggest would be better. adding Cc: terrell, the expert on tags. :-)

Good idea. What I currently do is open the [ViewTickets](wiki/ViewTickets) page and look through it for keywords, but what you suggest would be better. adding Cc: terrell, the expert on tags. :-)

terrell commented

2011-01-10 19:18:58 +00:00

this could be a trac plugin or macro.

i would suggest generating a toggle/help/mouseover link that would display a div with tagcloud of the keywords, in alpha order, sized by usage. upon clicking any one of the tags in the tagcloud, that tag would be added to the keyword field of the page being viewed (modify ticket, new ticket, etc).

this could be a trac plugin or macro. i would suggest generating a toggle/help/mouseover link that would display a div with tagcloud of the keywords, in alpha order, sized by usage. upon clicking any one of the tags in the tagcloud, that tag would be added to the keyword field of the page being viewed (modify ticket, new ticket, etc).

zooko commented

2011-01-10 19:30:13 +00:00

That sounds awesome.

terrell commented

2011-01-10 19:38:53 +00:00

in fact, something like this already exists...

http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/KeywordSuggestPlugin - does dropdown suggestions - last touched aug2008

and

http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/LoomingCloudsPlugin - implements clickable cloud - last touched july2010 - requires http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TagsPlugin

in fact, something like this already exists... <http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/KeywordSuggestPlugin> - does dropdown suggestions - last touched aug2008 and <http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/LoomingCloudsPlugin> - implements clickable cloud - last touched july2010 - requires <http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TagsPlugin>

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