Moving away from Jira to #GitLab is nice overall, but there are many papercuts.
To get rid of (hide, really) the “Similar items” feature (that could make sense as an option for a public-facing issue tracking system, but not really when you're between one and two persons on a project), the #Stylus browser extension can come in handy…
1/2
The first part is the critical one, the second one is just a reminder left for myself, just in case something weird happens later on:
```
section#work-item-similar-items {
display: none;
}
section#work-item-similar-items ~ section::before {
content: "Similar items disabled via Stylus";
text-align: center;
margin: -5px 0 20px 0;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #f0f0f0;
display: block;
}
```
2/2
Another easy fix, as someone who tend to navigate around and select text that I intend to replace by typing, turning off the following setting found in user preferences makes typing a lot smoother:
> [ ] Surround text selection when typing quotes or brackets
>
> When you type in a description or comment box, selected text is surrounded by the corresponding character after typing one of the following characters: […]
The following one is probably not as easy as adding some CSS: I'm getting a “Read more” button on issues that are considered “too long”.
Guess what, if I'm opening an issue, I want to see everything, not some kind of TL;DR (that already spans across my entire 3840x2160 display anyway…).
Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings