On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Adrian Buehlmann<adr...@cadifra.com> wrote: > On 30.08.2009 10:19, Peer Sommerlund wrote: >> >> >> 2009/8/28 Steve Borho <st...@borho.org <mailto:st...@borho.org>> >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Adrian >> Buehlmann<adr...@cadifra.com <mailto:adr...@cadifra.com>> wrote: >> > On 28.08.2009 19:15, Steve Borho wrote: >> >> There's a lot of rather advanced features being tacked onto the >> >> changelog and commit tools on the last few months, which is all fine >> >> and grand for experienced Mercurial users, but I'm beginning to >> wonder >> >> if we want to hide many of these commands by default to protect new >> >> users from shooting themselves in the feet. >> >> >> >> Specifically: rebase, strip, transplant, backout, MQ >> >> >> >> Many of those operations have failure modes that require command line >> >> manipulations to get back to a normal working state. >> >> >> >> I'm curious how other people feel about this. >> > >> > I'm fine with not showing these by default, turning them >> > on with some expert mode -- or something. >> >> Yeah, either through 'tortoisehg.trainingwheels = False' or just >> checking for loaded extensions. >> >> >> I'm not too fond of modes in general. >> See for example >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_error#Criticism_and_mode_errors > > That term "mode" is s bit overly loaded here, as hiding more advanced > user interface parts surely isn't as hard as an interface element that > fundamentally changes its meaning based on a state or true hard-to-leave > UI states like the ones in my Vibra LITE2 wristwatch (I definitely > start getting to old for such devices...). > > Not presenting complicated / advanced features in GUI user interfaces > IMHO doesn't count as a "mode" in that sense. Otherwise we might start > counting tabs in dialog boxes as modes as well.... (and end up doing > everything on the command line again, which is the absolute king of > modelessness).
My shell always has vi bindings, and there are definitely modes :) The approach I'm leaning towards is the one we used in the commit tool. Certain features will be hidden if they require extensions that are not loaded. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
