On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 01:46 +0000, TK Soh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > * Optional overlay support (no TortoiseOverlays or hooks registered) > > Do you mean no display of overlays icons, or display without using > TortoiseOverlays?
No overlays registered at all. This is a frequent request. > > * Optional shell integration (no COM services registered at all) > > Just to speak my mind. While I understand the 'issues' this is trying > to address, we can't call it a Tortoise(HG) without the shell > integration. That's the reason why I never try to provide a channel to > achieve this from within TortoiseHg (yes, it can be done) > > I understand the overlay icons display is less than optimum now, but > the context menu has to be there. I know we disagree about this. In my view, if your product has a feature that is genuinely helpful to 90% of your end-users, and completely prevents the other 10% from using it, then you make it optional. It's all about removing barriers so more people can use what they can. We're eventually going to fix the blocking problems for those other 10%, but that's no reason to prevent them from using the rest of the tool today. I don't think that makes it Un-tortoise (but if the Tortoise lawyers come after me, I'll be changing my tune). There's another reason I want to allow the shell extensions to be optional that has nothing to do with any perceived flaws that might be there, and that's to allow a basic permission install just like the base Mercurial installers that Lee Cantey packages. A lot of people are forced to use the base installer because they do not have permission on their work PC to install TortoiseHg. This opens up a whole other group of users. I also think this will eventually allow users to test-drive new releases (or nightly builds) without destroying their existing setups, or having to reboot multiple times. just my $.02 -- Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
