On 20 April 2011 14:17, Peter Tyser <[email protected]> wrote: > I was curious what others thought of this. Its sort of like gedit's > left-hand filelist pane. I prefer this layout on my work PC (24" > monitors) and widescreen laptops. There are a couple of other > similar options that could be added to make its functionality > more like gedit.
I like it. I need to play with it a bit more, but I think it's a solid idea. It also makes me wish (yet again) that we had the concept of top-level comparisons, and defaulted to one top-level per window. In that case, this just becomes an alternative to tabs for VC views, and there's no confusion. As it stands, having tabs *and* this mode is... a bit ugly. I notice that you've disabled tabs for this view. Doesn't that break existing behaviours? > I made the least changes I could to demonstrate > the concept, but would be open to alternate implementations. Looking at it, I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be easier (or at least possible) to implement this as a notebook with hidden panes, and have the listview on the left control which tab was active. There are probably plenty of implications of this that I haven't thought through. > I don't like that this fragments the UI settings a little more, Predictably, I'm also not wild about the UI setting, but I think the benefits of the view probably outweigh the irritations of the preference. > but adding a side pane to the file and directory diffs seemed > like a can of worms that I'm not prepared to open as I primarly > only use the VcView functionality of meld. I don't think a side pane makes any sense for file diffs (okay, it might be cool to have a code outliner pane or something, but not happening any time soon), and directory diffs are generally *much* wider than VC views, so not as practical. In other words, I don't think that the inconsistency is something that needs addressing. Could you please open a bug and attach your patch? cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
