On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Chris Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The Qt port is now entering a feature freeze so we can get the
>> documentation and translations caught up with 12 months of heavy
>> development. The 2.0 release will look quite a bit like 1.9.2, so
>> please try it out and report any bugs or nits that you find.
>>
>> Details that are worth repeating:
>>
>> * beta packages can cleanly upgrade stable packages, and vice-versa
>> * beta x64 packages are native 64 bit applications (not true of the
>> GTK based stable branch)
>> * report beta issues at https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/issues
>
> Upgrade from 1.9.1. to 1.9.2 seemed to work well on my machine. Stability
> wise there are a couple bugs that I need to report (may take a couple days to
> get those in). These might be windows x64 specific as my linux and x86
> testing didn't show any issues, but I haven't used them nearly as much (day
> to day usage is win x64).
>
> Overall, I'm very happy with this version! Great work! Integrated repo
> registry, hg status integration (*Working Directory* entry) and all-in-one-ui
> are killer features for me. I'm evaluating thg doing day to day work before
> unleashing it on our developers.
>
> As for the new version as a whole I agree with the other sentiments about UI
> refinements, specifically the graph filter/search bar. Some suggestions:
>
> * The graph filter button should be a toggle button like the other view
> buttons (e.g. Repo registry), and be depressed when the search/filter bar is
> shown
This is likely to happen soon, along with the goto toolbar button.
This didn't happen before now because there was a third toolbar button
here that had impossible update semantics.
> * The graph filter should have by default a simple keyword search without any
> special syntax (i.e. 'search' should default to keyword('search')) and all
> advanced queries be relegated to the "advanced" editor button.
> * I see no reason for the filter checkbox. Why would you not want to filter
> the revisions when you search?
When they're not filtered, you see the entire graph but changesets
that did not match the filter are disabled. Some might find it useful
to see context for the revisions that matched.
> In fact, why not change the filter bar to always on and simplify the UI? ->
>
> |___________________________________________|[x] [search] Branch
> [default][...]
>
> The [x] button would clear searches and [...] would bring up an "advanced
> find" dialog with a query editor, option to store/load saved queries, options
> to not filter results and any other revision search criteria. The search bar
> should be as simple as a google search with a clean UI.
>
> Obviously, that would be a 2.1 request.
Not necessarily. Tweaking layouts for usability is certainly on the table.
--
Steve Borho
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