From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Tromey To: gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com Subject: Thoughts on gnatsweb Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <87wvay9o57.fsf@creche.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00027.html I've been using gnatsweb for a while now, maybe a couple of years, and I have noticed a few things which I find annoying. I hesitate to call them bugs exactly, because they don't actually get in the way of my use of gnatsweb. (And, FWIW, in general I like gnatsweb quite a bit.) One thing that is annoying is that sometimes gnatsweb forgets that I can log in to a database. For instance, on the gcc web pages there are links like this: http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?user=guest&password=guest&database=gcc&cmd=login This is supposed to take you to the gcc gnats page. Well, this is annoying because if I already have a gnats account for this database, and I'm already logged in, following this link will log me in again as `guest'. I think either links like this shouldn't log me in again, or it should be possible to specify a default user/password pair (perhaps in the site config file) and then simply leave them out of the URL in the link. My next problem with gnatsweb is that I tend to like to go to a particular query result page and do my work from there. Unfortunately this is not entirely doable because there is no way to create a new PR from the query page. In fact, if you save a link to your stored query (so you can jump directly to it without intervening steps) then you have no way to go from the query page back to the main page or anyplace else. I think this problem could be solved using some kind of navigation bar that would show up even on the query page. I think it would be sufficient to have buttons going to `main page', `query', and `advanced query'. A while back I reported some problems involving using Gnatsweb on two databases on the same host at the same time. I haven't tried this lately, so I don't know if these problems are fixed. I imagine that I sent them to bug-gnats@gnu.org. Does anybody know if anything has changed here? Tom