Last modified: 2013-03-14 13:55:22 UTC
A common task for those who use [[Special:AllMessages]] is to change the default values of: * The fields of the "Filter" section (e.g. "prefix" or "Language"); AND * The number of items per page Currently, the user needs to submit the page two times in order to achieve both changes, because each section has its own [Go] button. Besides, if the user do changes in both sections and submit using one of these buttons, one of the changes will be discarded. It would be better if those buttons could be merged into only one, which could be clicked to submit any changes the user has made in the available fields. I think I've seen the same problem in some other special page, but I can't remember which one right now.
Neither of these buttons should probably actually be there unless JavaScript is disabled; these are things that in modern UIs are generally expected to apply immediately on change.
It seems this was recently fixed on trunk (at least for [[Special:AllMessages]], on my local MW installation). Can someone confirm in which revision that has changed?
(In reply to comment #0) > I think I've seen the same problem in some other special page, but I can't > remember which one right now. I just found another one... ;-) [[mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki]] has two [Go] buttons (one for the "number of items" per page and the other for the "path")
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #0) > > I think I've seen the same problem in some other special page, but I can't > > remember which one right now. > > I just found another one... ;-) > [[mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki]] has two [Go] buttons (one for the "number of > items" per page and the other for the "path") The other cases are the links for "boolean options" such as -------------------------------------------------------------------- [Show] minor edits | [Show] bots | [Hide] anonymous users | [Hide] logged-in users | [Hide] reviewed edits | [Hide] my edits -------------------------------------------------------------------- displayed on [[Special:Watchlist]] and [[Special:RecentChanges]]. Those buttons could probably be replaced by checkboxes, so that the changes could be submitted through one only button. Besides: those [Go] buttons should also be converted to links, as was made on bug 16165 (r86047, r86050, r86056 & r86188), so that users can: * Get links to the filtered lists without having to open them * Open the lists in a new tab.
(In reply to comment #2) > It seems this was recently fixed on trunk (at least for > [[Special:AllMessages]], on my local MW installation). Indeed, Reedy fixed bug 28272 (Special:Allmessages should have only one "Go" button) on r88595. Since I was suggesting this kind of problem to be fixed on other special pages as well, and the other cases are not exactly about "buttons", I'm changing the summary of this bug accordingly and putting Bug 28272 as a blocker for this.
