Grabbed meld from git and applied your patches, Thanks a lot for adding these & I'm not fussed on what exact methods/keys/names are as long as its there. Will these be in the next release of meld?
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 February 2011 18:18, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi I use meld to review my changes to SVN before committing since I >> like to see the context changes are made and to be able to make minor >> edits or revert some lines, >> there are 2 small features that would make reviewing changes with meld >> quicker. >> >> Writing to the list because these should be fairly easy. > > The first one yes. The second one... not so much. Regardless, I've > attached a patch series that adds a Tabs menu to Meld that tries to > follow existing Gnome-y guidelines for such stuff. Feedback and > testing would be great. > >> 1) a way to switch buffers from the keyboard Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab >> would be my preference. > > Those shortcuts are used for focus movement already, so we can't use > them. Ctrl+PageUp/Down would be okay, except that these keyboard > shortcuts are used by GtkTextView. So, we're relegated to using > Ctrl+Alt+PageUp/Down like gedit does. > > Other than that, it's a reasonable request so I went ahead and did it. > See patch 0001. > >> 2) a "Buffer" menu, sometimes so many files change that I need to >> click through the tabs to find the one I want. > > This sounds reasonable (except that the menu would be "Tabs", see: > http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/TabImplementation/ExistingImplementations). > > This one was significantly less simple, but see patch 0003. > >> Fun one! >> *would like but not so important*, when you scroll the mouse wheel >> down the divider it would be nifty if it jumped to the next buffer >> once it hits the end of the changes in the current buffer. >> This could be annoying to some users so it could be an option or only >> while holding modifier. > > Sorry, but I'm not convinced by this idea. Even with a modifier (and I > think we only have Ctrl available) it seems unnecessarily surprising > for relatively little gain in efficiency. > > cheers, > Kai > -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
