On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Colin Caughie <c.caug...@indigovision.com> wrote: > Just to throw another viewpoint into the mix... > > I use Vista 64 (running the 32-bit explorer for TortoiseHG), and have turned > the overlay icons off, partly because they often don't update correctly (at > least in the first version of THG I tried, maybe that's fixed now) and also > because they flicker with a period of about a second, which got annoying > really quickly. I assume that problem is specific to Vista 64, I haven't seen > it on other systems.
No, it did this on all Vista machines (see issue #1 in the bug tracker). I think this was a race condition, so the size of your repository and the speed of your computer contributed to it. This side effect is gone in the new C++ extension. > I actually find THG perfectly usable without the icons; when I want to know > the status I just bring up the status window from the context menu. > > The icons are definitely nice though, but _only_ if they give an accurate, > real-time view of what's going on. IMHO misinformation is a lot worse than no > information, so I'd prefer no icons at all than icons that are inaccurate or > not up to date, and that goes for both file and folder icons. > > If keeping the folder icon up to date in real time is not feasible, might a > good compromise to give folders a completely separate icon to indicate that > there are controlled files in the folder but THG doesn't know their status? > > Otherwise I guess a taskbar daemon isn't a bad option, assuming you can't do > it in the shell extension (it's been a while since I wrote a shell extension, > I've forgotten what can and can't be done). There's a question of 'could we?', and there's a question of 'should we?'. And the latter is more limiting. Thanks for the feedback. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
