On 15 April 2012 06:15, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 April 2012 16:10, Peter Tyser <[email protected]> wrote: >> Currently if a user opens multiple file diffs at the same time from a >> DirDiff or VcView the following happens: >> - the 1st diff is opened in a new tab and focus is moved to this tab >> - the 2nd diff is opened in a new tab and focus is moved to this tab >> - the 3rd diff is opened in a new tab and focus is moved to this tab >> - etc... >> >> This behavior has 2 shortcomings: >> 1. The user is presented with a window that cycles focus through >> multiple diff tabs which is visually jarring. >> 2. During this period of time when tabs are being cycled through the >> user can't interact with Meld - the focus shifts too fast to allow >> the user to do anything. This is especially painful if the user >> initiates a large number of diffs, the diffs are on a slow filesystem >> (eg over a slow NFS share), or if the diffs are of version-controlled >> files (VC-diffs have more overhead, which slows them down). >> >> To resolve these issues, only transfer focus to a new tab if the current >> tab is a DirDiff or VcView. This results in the following behavior: >> - the 1st diff is opened in a new tab and focus is moved to this tab >> - the 2nd diff is opened in a new background tab >> - the 3rd diff is opened in a new background tab >> - etc... >> >> While the background tabs are being opened Meld is still usable. >> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <[email protected]> >> --- >> I frequently diff large git-controlled repositories (eg the Linux >> kernel) shared on an NFS server, which really brings this issue out. > > Both patches look good, thanks. I'll apply them after 1.6 branches.
I've pushed these now. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
