I would like to forward this thread to the list in case someone find it interesting and/or suggests improvements. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> Date: Apr 30, 2006 9:50 AM Subject: Re: More qgit defects To: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx Hello, Marco! On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:21 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote:
I have just pushed some patches according to your suggestions.
Thank you very much.
If we don't find any issue/annoyance I would like to release 1.2 in the next couple of days, so to have a broader test base, and also because currently released 1.2rc2 has a bad crash bug.
I think it's good for the 1.2 release.
So if you have any concerns or you would like to see something more added please let me know.
I think the list items in the file window need a pop-up menu. Without it, the users would not be able to discover what e.g. the double click would do. More generally, I feel that something is wrong with the user interface. I think gitk is doing it better with a single pane that has the comments and the diff. Splitting the window horizontally in three panes seems to be too much, especially when one of the panes is used for diffs. Actually, qgit may be better for serious work, such as comparing the description with the actual text. But still, the panes are too small in vertical direction, and if I tear off the diff, it will obscure something. The jumpiness of qgit has been largely fixed, but there are still cases when mere selecting an item affect another window. Is it really necessary to have a separate file window? How different is it from the main window with the "filter by tree" option on? Can we switch between diff and annotation? More generally, what are the things that the users are not normally viewing at the same time? I'm not asking to fix anything, but qgit still feels odd to me. I know I'm not qualified to ask you to rearrange everything, because I'm not a GUI specialist, and I don't see how qgit should work. Maybe you could ask in the git list how to improve qgit? I cannot find any suitable forum about HIG (human interface guidelines), but if you ask in the git list, maybe somebody will give you an idea where to ask. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html