On 2/24/06, Tom Spear speeddymon@gmail.com wrote:
Something like <h2><font color=red>Please check the AppDB to see if there is a workaround for a problem you are encountering with a specific program.</font></h2> should work for all but the main bug submit page, and there we should put javascript:alert('Please check the AppDB to see if there is a workaround for a problem you are encountering with a specific program.'); into the body so that it shows each time they load the page.. Maybe we could make is a question pop up when they hit the submit button instead, and if thye hit yes, then it submits the bug, if not, it either redirects them to the appdb, or back to the bug submit page.
Hopefully most of you will agree and it will get put in.
I really don't think this would reduce bug duplicates. For one thing, bugs are bugs and should be filed in the database. Even if there's a workaround in the AppDB that says how to get a program working, it doesn't mean that the underlying issue shouldn't be fixed.
I also think that having any kind of popup in the way will just annoy people, and most people will ignore it anyway
n0dalus.