GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 727895
Use a single row of text for each log entry
Last modified: 2015-05-26 10:15:24 UTC
Right now each log entry has two rows of text - one for the component that generate the log, and one for the message itself. This makes the list of logs difficult to read, and it reduces the number of messages that can be displayed at once. Using a single row of text for each log entry will resolve these issues: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/logs/logs.png Note that the same font (and font size) should be used for each column - this aids readability. You could also take this opportunity to remove the > arrows at the end of each row - these aren't very helpful, and they are quite distracting/noisy.
I would like to work on this.
As per the attached design , How should the detail information show? Should we make the row height increased and show the info there for the selected row, or should there be a details pane?
Created attachment 303978 [details] [review] patch for this bug Add seperator between adiacent rows and use a single row for each log entry
Review of attachment 303978 [details] [review]: Excellent work! Pushed to master as 995bacac51ee84516e9d0c4950dcc1edd45cdd64. The only remaining improvement is to add the "category" of the message (system, application and so on) to a new column at the left of the log message. This can be done at some later point, in a separate bug.