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Comment text area has too little screen estate in Phabricator
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Since the recent upgrade, most UI items in phabricator have been rearranged. The first concrete obstacle I encountered in my work is that the text area where to type a comment is extremely small, in a 1024px wide screen:

phabricator-textarea.png (485×1 px, 18 KB)

There are other essential features which get compacted too much, as well. We should list those our users care about.

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I don't think this is a duplicate of T133825. T133825 is about reverting en bloc to the old theme, this task (like others of @Nemo_bis) lists individual nuisances that can be fixed (and may even be broken in the old theme as well).

Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Oct 7 2016, 5:26 PM

The only "Essential functions" mentioned in the task summary are "the text area to add comments" in the task description. "Other essential features which get compacted too much" are not mentioned in the task description. Noone knows what is "essential" for you so this task is currently too vague.

The first concrete obstacle I encountered in my work is that the text area where to type a comment is extremely small, in a 1024px wide screen

Please describe which actual problems the size of the text area creates for you.

This task is currently missing a description of actual problems, created by "too little screen estate". Please elaborate.

Nemo_bis changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Oct 9 2016, 8:14 PM

One actual problem is already described with sufficient detail. If you need resources on the user experience impact of inadequately sized textareas (and other things), please state so explicitly.

Aklapper renamed this task from Essential functions have too little screen estate in Phabricator to Comment text area has too little screen estate in Phabricator.Oct 9 2016, 9:00 PM
Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.
Aklapper edited projects, added Phabricator (Upstream); removed Phabricator.

As no clarification was provided I've adjusted the task summary.

In https://secure.phabricator.com/w/changelog/2016.46/ , "Comment boxes have received a design update" in upstream.
This will get deployed later today.

1004px width:

1004px-width.png (480×1 px, 18 KB)

1024px width:

1024px-width.png (480×1 px, 36 KB)

So the field is now wider on 1024px (compared to the screenshot in the task description here) but I'm not sure if it's "enough". @Nemo_bis?

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Closing as resolved as it has been a couple of weeks without any reply's.

Please reopen if the problem still happens.