I'm a bit hesitant to talk about this here for being misinterpreted, but I think the elephant in the room is bugging me even more than that. :)
The following was posted over on the mercurial list, but I think it needs to be talked about here: (my comments follow) On 2009 Jan 9, at 2:33 AM, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Thomas Burdick <[email protected] > > wrote: >> TortoiseHg could help win some of the people I work with over if it >> had some >> usability work done on it. I don't know if its the use of toolbox >> buttons >> instead of form buttons, gtk+ (it looks plain wrong in windows...), >> or a >> combination of both but no one I've talked to thought the UI was >> intuitive. >> #1 complaint/issue was workflow - typically you go down a form, and >> the >> buttons to operate things are at the top. I don't think the other >> tortoise's >> do this >> #2 complaint/issue - why aren't the commands the same for the >> tortoise menu >> as hg help. what is synchronize and why don't I get things like >> pull, push, >> update, revert, rollback etc as menu options instead of this silly >> business >> with toolbox buttons. I try telling these guys "pull" and "push" >> and they >> ask me, where is push/pull in the menu. > > Well, part of the Summer of Code project was to do such changes. > Sadly, they weren't accepted into TortoiseHg. The student had got rid > of the close buttons, redone some dialogs to better follow established > style, etc. And there was a Debian package, too. Maybe I wasn't > insistent enough to help him get it into THg. Problem is, I'm not a > core THg developer myself, so coaching this project was a little > difficult. But this work still exists! Maybe it can still serve as a > basis: > > http://www.bitbucket.org/gpoo/soc/overview/ > > -parren >> I was very happy to see this project get started, and I am curious to know where it stands with the TortoiseHG developers. I am curious for two reasons: a) Having this kind of work would have made TortoiseHG easier to accept in my work group. b) More importantly because it sends a message about how non-core- developer efforts are treated. I understand that this is all volunteer, and I very much appreciate the work that has gone into TortoiseHG so far. It is hard to be optimistic about carving out time to work on THg when it seems that such work would just languish... and I very much would like to figure out how to contribute in a way that is likely to be more successful than the GSoC work was at being adopted... (Personally, I have had family distractions as well as a "I'll wait until the GSoC code is in before making anything non-trivia). Thanks, --Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
