On gitg we are considering to adopt GNOME Commits as project name.
Same as nautilus is GNOME Files, we though that gitg (a joke around
gitx and software which at some point in time use to have a G around to
denote it is under GNOME) is not easy to locate for people looking for a
git GUI viewer.
On 10/10/2018 08:34 AM, Alberto Fanjul Alonso wrote:
On gitg we are considering to adopt GNOME Commits as project name.
Same as nautilus is GNOME Files, we though that gitg (a joke around
gitx and software which at some point in time use to have a G around to
denote it is under GNOME) is not
I'm fine with idea of giving it a fresh name. Gitg never really made sense
to me, though I never knew the reasoning behind it.
GNOME Commits might be clear to all people familiar with git, but for the
average user they might think it's an activist app or something. Or like a
charity app. This
Seing https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis and asumming GNOME is a desktop
environment (GUI is supposed) maybe GNOME Git Tool, but tool is little
redundant here, that's why looking for something that this git GUI Tool can
do. Maybe GNOME Git Commits as it shows them (history) and creates them.
El
On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 08:34 +0200, Alberto Fanjul Alonso wrote:
> On gitg we are considering to adopt GNOME Commits as project name.
Hi,
I'm used to gitk (which uses Qt, if I'm not mistaken). The gitg always
meant to me a gtk+ variant "of the same". I never looked for the real
reasoning
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:26 PM Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list
wrote:
> I'm used to gitk (which uses Qt, if I'm not mistaken).
gitk uses tk (as in Tcl/Tk). qgit uses Qt.
> Can it work with anything else than git?
No.
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Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker
GNOME Git seems pretty reasonable. I'm not sure there's a large
discoverability issue with "gitg" though. It shows up when I search "git"
in GNOME Software...
I don't know if we have a policy for "gnome front-ends to existing third
party tools", but there's already a small precedence with
Hi all,
As a heads up, we’ve just merged some performance improvements to
GHashTable, done by Hans Petter Jansson:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/merge_requests/208
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1198
https://hpjansson.org/blag/2018/08/29/what-ails-ghashtable/
There's also https://github.com/indie-mirror/gnomit !
Crowded namespace!
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 6:04 PM Hashem Nasarat wrote:
>
> GNOME Git seems pretty reasonable. I'm not sure there's a large
> discoverability issue with "gitg" though. It shows up when I search "git"
> in GNOME Software...
