On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Sune Foldager <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steve > > Nice progress on the browse command. I have some comments, suggestions > and ideas for guiding this in the direction I would like to see it > (which isn't necessarily the same as you or others). Don't take them too > seriously; I know it's prototype development :) > > 1. I'm able to browse freely outside the repo. Is that on purpose? Of > course see point 2 below.
I wanted the browser to have that capability. It's conceivable we could use this thing as a load/save dialog in the future. > 2. On the long term, I'd still like this integrated in the history > viewer, but not just as a working dir browser. Rather as a browser of > the manifest at a given revision, a special case of which would be the > 'next commit' revision, i.e. working copy. Just so you keep it in mind > for your design, e.g. make the source of directory data abstract and not > hard-coded to filesystem. When it operates inside a repository, it gets all of it's state info from repo.status(), which meets your needs, I believe. With the side effect that it's impossible to browse into .hg/ My intention was to not provide '..' from the repository root if the browser was given specific revision(s). > 3. When changing directory, focus should be restored to the listview, at > the top element for instance. The current behavior where I need to press > an arrow key, makes bunny cry. I hadn't even begun to think about such things yet. Sounds about right though. > 4. The icons are quite possibly the ugliest I have ever seen :-p. Without a doubt. I pasted them from a PyGtk sample. > 5. On the long term, some more 'midnight commander' ish information will > probably be nice, e.g. file size. Also, obviously file actions like view > file, diff etc., but this should be pretty much like in the commit and > history dialogs. Yep. Hooking up the menus was next on my list. > 6. Maybe we should have some more design discussions for the GUI in > general? I mostly mean overall structure; what goes where and how are > things connected :-). It's not that I think we necessarily disagree > among developers, but just to get some more eyes on things :-). Of > course this email can be the start of such a thread. That would be useful. We have not had a lot of discussions on how to knit together all these pieces. They have grown quite organically. Perhaps it belongs on thg-discuss? -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
