On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Yuki KODAMA <endflow....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 23:12, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: >> There's been some discussions on the Mercurial users list about >> starting a PyQt port of TortoiseHg. If we decide to go this route, I >> have a few suggestions. >> >> 1) We mark the current GTK dialogs as "done" in thg-1.1 and switch >> tortoisehg/hgtk to pure maintenance mode. >> 2) The hgtk app should be given logic to allow switching between GTK >> and Qt versions of each command >> 3) The Qt port should start with the functionality in hgcmd.py and >> hgthread.py; including colors and progress >> 4) Then we can start with UI mockups of the GTK apps; only without our >> existing warts. > > Very interesting, I just read the thread of this topic on hg-user ML. > Does your second suggestion mean that we should have a common > interface to use Mercurial's features from UI codes of PyGTK and PyQt?
Not necessarily. I'm not terribly interested in maintaining API compatibility between ports. If we start a PyQt port, the intent should be for it to eventually replace the GTK port entirely. I suggest the hgcmd functionality as a starting point so that we learn the necessary lessons about threading and interfacing between Mercurial with PyQt up front, before designing more complicated dialogs. Also, a nice command shell window can "paper" over missing GUI functionalities, making the PyQt version usable sooner. > If we move to PyQt, we won't bother Windows theme problem anymore :-) > And INADA Naoki (TortoiseBZR maintainer) said some custom GUI components > can be shared. That's nice of them. > FYI: PyQt may support Windows 7 feature: "Jump List" (in 4.7?) [1]. > At least, 4.5 has limited support of "Aero Glass" feature [2]. > > [1] http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-roadmap > [2] http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/09/15/using-blur-behind-on-windows/ I have no doubts Qt will have large improvements over GTK on Windows and Mac OS X. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
