On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 05:21 +0000, TK Soh wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:52 PM, TK Soh <teekay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 02:19 +0000, TK Soh wrote: >> >>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: >> >>>> > As specified by our new time based release schedule, today >> >>>> > was the deadline specified for the feature freeze for 0.7. Only >> >>>> > bug fixes will be pulled into the crew repository from today until >> >>>> > 0.7 is released. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > I've been working pretty hard the last couple of days to finish >> >>>> > a number of loose ends: >> >>>> > >> >>>> > * I pushed out a new release of Qct (1.7) that I know works >> >>>> > correctly with TortoiseHg as an external application >> >>>> > * Fixed the overlay support on Vista (issue#1 on bitbucket) >> >>>> > * Added the new dialogs to the windows context menu >> >>>> > * Ran all the source code through pychecker, which found >> >>>> > more than a few of bugs and pointed out a number of bad >> >>>> > habits which I've tried to cleanup. >> >>>> > * Improved robustness of the commit dialog >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >From today, I recommend people grab a nightly build and try >> >>>> > it out on a non-mission-critical machine and report bugs here >> >>>> > or on the crew issue tracker. Most especially, try out the new >> >>>> > features introduced in this release: >> >>>> > >> >>>> > * hgignore and rename dialogs >> >>>> > * record and shelve features >> >>>> >> >>>> In the commit/shelve window, the message line on top of the diff pane >> >>>> has the same background color as the diff header, making them look >> >>>> mixed up. Perhaps they need some visual separation between them. >> >>>> >> >>>> Also, the message line is empty in status window. Maybe it should be >> >>>> removed. >> >>> >> >>> Removed in total, or just in the status window? >> >> >> >> Good question. Actually the line is taking up some rather precious >> >> real estate away from the diff pane. If possible, we should remove it >> >> completely, but you think there's other good way to tell users on the >> >> rejection of hunks? >> > >> > Inside the dialog? Probably not. But I was intending to add wiki >> > pages for each of the new features to explain them to users. How many >> > will read them? Hard to tell. >> >> Not many. At least not until they are told after running into some issues. > > I think we need to find a way to bring up a welcome HTML page after the > installer runs. Maybe a first-time flag in their Mercurial.ini and an > item in the start menu. > >> BTW, I meant removing it from the status window. > > I was leaning towards removing it already.
Remove it completely? I saw you did that already. >> >> BTW, have you tested windows on repos with modified binary files? >> > >> > Yes, you just get the git diff header, no hunks for selection. The >> > header has the same message you see from record/shelve: this is a >> > binary file (all or nothing) >> >> Then you will see that you can't tell if the file is rejected by >> looking at the diff pane. Also, the header get 'fused' into the header >> of the file that followed without any separation, making it >> potentially confusing. > > The first problem could be fixed by reducing the font weight in the diff > header when the file is unselected. The second problem is more > difficult, as the treeview does not allow variable padding per row. We > have limited options. > > Hmm, one idea is to experiment with a pixmap cell renderer, like the > changelog browser uses to show parents. We could add a pixmap to header > hunks that makes those rows a bit taller. The pixmap could even show > the state of the file selection. > > -- > Steve > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
