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  2. JENKINS-47318

Blueocean build log scrolling behavior is worse than non-blueocean

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    • Blue Ocean 1.4 - beta 1, Blue Ocean 1.4 - beta 2

      To reproduce, have a long job that keeps printing logs, and compare Blueocean behavior with the old UI. In general, the experience with the new UI is not great:

      Both auto-scroll as new logs are printed, ok so fra. But:

      • There are two vertical scrollbars in Blueocean for some reason
      • Blueocean does not stop scrolling in all cases where the old UI would. JENKINS-41885 made it stop the auto-scroll-on-update on a mouse-wheel scroll, but grabbing the slider and scrolling up by that does not stop the auto-scroll, resulting in a poor user experience. Old UI would stop in that case. Same deal with PgUp/ Home key presses.
      • It is not possible to make Blueocean resume auto-scrolling. Old UI resumes auto-scrolling when the view is moved back to the last displayed log.
      • It even seems like Bluoecean stops updating, not just auto-scroling on the mouse-wheel scroll, requiring a page refresh to see new logs after the user has scrolled up.
      • There's a misleading "complete log" link at the top which leads to a truncated log when the build is in progress (in my test the dynamic view is at log line 22000, "complete log" ends at 9700). The old UI defaults to a partial view with live updates and has a "full log" link to a full view also with updates, so this new behavior is surprising.

       

       

            jamesdumay James Dumay
            tsniatowski Tomasz Śniatowski
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