MySQL Bugs: #53628: Various problems with Workbench main page web icons

Bug #53628	Various problems with Workbench main page web icons
Submitted:	13 May 2010 18:50	Modified:	27 May 2010 14:03
Reporter:	Giuseppe Maxia	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.2.21	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Mike Lischke	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	icons, web, workbench

Description:
There are a few problems with the icons in the main page:

1. "MySQL bug reporter". This opens a window in the integrated browser. While this could be seen as a feature, it is actually a nuisance, because in this browser users need to log in. This button should open the bugs database using the host machine default browser, where users are probably already logged in;

2. "MySQL Team Blog" and "Workbench Team Blog". They actually get to the same URL. And since the browser doesn't display the URL, it's hard to say what the intention was.

3. "MySQL News Letter". This actually opens the MySQL "announcements" mailing list. It could be useful, but it is not what the icon says.

How to repeat:
see above

Thank you for the problem report. Verified just as described.

1. "MySQL bug reporter"
This is just a placeholder for what will be added there in the future. It uses Safari/IE. If you use a different browser on your system, e.g. FireFox, you will have to login there once. This will not be changed right now as we do not have the much more elegant solution in place.
2. "MySQL Team Blog" and "Workbench Team Blog".
These are using the wrong captions. They need to be corrected to "MySQL Workbench Blog" and "Planet MySQL"
3. "MySQL News Letter".
Caption should be changed to "MySQL News" and it should link to http://dev.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/index.html

Fixed in repository

changes confirmed in repository

An entry has been added to the 5.2.22 changelog:

On the Home screen, the MySQL Team Blog and Workbench Team Blog icons linked to the same page. Further, the MySQL News Letter icon linked to the MySQL Developer forum.