Hi!
Hi, upstream are currently in the process of redesigning polygerrit to look more like [1].
I tried it out for a couple of days, and in general I have the following (shared it a bit on IRC already but this would be more permanent I think):
1. The look is great and I like it. The following would be mostly complaining about various details, so I just want to say it so it wouldn't sound like I hated it :)
2. Please be aware however not everybody uses very wide screens with windows opened full-width. So design that would require 1900px wide windows to be useful is suboptimal. More points below on that.
3. Length of such things as usernames, branch names, commit topics, etc. can vary wildly, thus displaying them in table may blow up the table to very large dimensions, unless countermeasures are taken. One that I would suggest is to make columns fixed max width (configurable would be nice, but sane default would be ok) with title/tooltip on hover displaying the full data. Not sure how to solve it for mobile where there's no hover but I assume there are best practices on that already.
4. In current PolyGerrit design and it seems on the mockups the width of the single patch display window is divided between list of patch reviewers, etc. column, commit message and related patches. This leaves - especially in non-full-max-width windows - not a lot of space for the commit message to be displayed properly[1].
5. Reply button is red. Usually red means something dangerous or erroneous or at least demanding full attention *now*. I think it should have some more neutral color. If any button should be red it's +2 one, but even that one probably shouldn't. But I really liked how +2 button was highlighted in old GUI, so I would like to keep it highlighted somehow.
6. On related patches display, the long line is abbreviated with ..., which is great. However, I'd like it to display full text on hover - sometimes the interesting part if towards the end, and right now to get to it you need to click through.
7. On related patches, now the status is displayed in words (like: Merged). While it is more clear than magic colored dots of the old UI, it also takes much more space. I wonder if some compromise can be made - more clear than colored dot but not taking 10 char spaces like the "(Merged)" string would.
8. There's a lot of vertical blank space if the list of the reviewers is long and commit message is short[2].
9. Going back to +2 button, it is kind of in the middle of others, maybe it should be next to Reply? Or at least first in line - you certainly would be clicking it more than cherry pick or delete change?
10. I really liked how "gerrit be nice to me" extension allowed me to paint -1'ed items in the dashboard in red and +1'ed in green. Any chance to have it (and also a color for Merge Conflict ones)? I tried to figure out how to do it as chrome extension but so far Polymer has defied my efforts.
11. Speaking of Merge Conflict, all I have seen in that Status column - at least for pending patches - is empty and Merge Conflict (there's more for merged patches but how often do you look at those? Not too often). I wonder if that column - which now occupies prime real estate right in the middle of the screen - could be shortened somehow or converted into pictograms or anything like that? Or at least let me rearrange columns so I could put it on the less prominent place.
12. On https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/ I see there's WIP badge on changes - like https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/159670/. Can we get the same thing please? I know I can do [WIP] in commit message, but this way is so much nicer :)
13. In old UI, I could edit the file in the patch right in place. Don't see it in the new one. Haven't used it *that* much but sometimes it's useful when you notice wrong whitespace or something and can fix it right there then.
14. All docs are for old UI as it seems. I wonder if there are docs for PolyGerrit UI?
[1] https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/3174140/0fac7a4a591a59b768f1fe2eadaf... [2] https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/3174139/bf6445a910aa63b2f26433e4d917...
Thanks,