On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 22:01, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Kyle Altendorf <kyle.altend...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> The downside? We'd perhaps have less of a right to call ourselves a
> >> "Tortoise" application.
> >> How much does anyone care?
> >
> > About it being a Tortoise application? Not at all. About having the
> > handy GUI be accessible from within Windows Explorer? Very much. I
> > certainly won't argue that Windows Explorer is better than anything
> > you might create but I feel that the integration into commonly used
> > directory browsers is key. Sadly, maintaining that feature sure seems
> > to come with a lot of nasty and annoying baggage.
>
> We'll certainly keep the explorer context menu extension, though it
> may be trimmed down.
>
>
I guess I might be confused. Are you proposing dropping the shell extension
or its dependency on the TortoiseSVN icon overlay library. I suppose either
way I would be less inclined to use, and I though I would possibly still use
hgtk, I wouldn't be able to recommend thg to my coworkers anymore. The shell
integration (including icon overlays) is a real motivator for adoption on
windows, if it were dropped, there would likely also be a huge drop in usage
on windows.
I realize that the way explorer handles icon overlays is more than a little
stupid, but suggesting that users use a different tool for file management
just wouldn't work. Also, do you really want to have to maintain a full file
manager?
Again I may have completely misunderstood what you are proposing.
--Stefan
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