size of the select menu should be more dynamic or configurable (Bugzilla #5879)

[vladak]

status NEW severity minor in component webapp for --- Reported in version unspecified on platform Other Assigned to: Trond Norbye

On 2008-12-17 08:24:18 +0000, Vladimir Kotal wrote:

By default, the front page displays list of projects in a select menu. This is limited by the following expression in web/menu.jspf:

size="<%=Math.min(5, env.getProjects().size())%>"

For sites with many (tens of) projects this does not scale, the window is just too small and cumbersome to navigate which leads to user frustration.

Possible approaches:

• configurable (via configuration.xml) lower and upper bound
  • say the size of the menu will not go below the lower bound and will not go above upper bound:
• size based on percentage of HTML page height
  • say the select box height should be 30% of the page
  • this could be done via CSS

[tulinkry]

New project picker without these limitations was introduced in #1161