[Bugs] #588 UNSP: Version column in Home list view may confuse, Date not very useful

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#588: Version column in Home list view may confuse, Date not very useful
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    Reporter:  FGrose                     |          Owner:  tomeu      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:             
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Unspecified
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:             
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed
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 Observed in Soas1-20090319.

 In list view I see a favorite star, activity icon, activity name, version
 number, and a date--but no explanation for number or date.

 I was most perplexed by the number which I figured out was the version by
 from seeing those in the mailings.  This may be mysterious for others
 wondering are there x versions or x instances or x what?

 Perhaps, suffix the version # to the activity name (with some extra space,
 which doesn't show in the Trac wiki, so I've added some periods as place
 holders, which might work as well to separate and bind) instead of giving
 it its own column (which implied a count, to me).  So it would be bound
 more closely with the name and not be in a separate column, like:

 '''Story Builder''' . . .  13
 '''Chat''' . . .  64
 '''Terminal''' . . .  23
 .
 .
 .

 I take it that the date is the date of the image build and not of the
 activity version since they are all nearly the same.  This doesn't really
 offer much useful information. Activity version date would be, perhaps, a
 useful reference.

 Thanks for considering!

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