On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 04:36, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: > 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.
I understood, thanks! I'll take a look threading of PyQt tomorrow. TortoiseBZR & CuteHg will be helpful resources to learn it. >> 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 > -- Yuki KODAMA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
