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Re: [TSVN] Some requests (long)

From: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-03-23 14:27:59 CET

Re-posting, but this time inline for those who prefer reading it this way.

Fernando P. Nájera Cano wrote:
> 23 items. All of these as of TortoiseSVN 1.1.3, Build 2699.
>
> General
>
> 1. Almost whenever I press F1 I get "Error when initializating Help"
> (in Spanish). I think I've seen that this issue got fixed some time
> ago. In the add dialog, however, F1 and Help button shows the Help
> without trouble.
>

1. Still an issue:
Repo-Browser URL dialog: Buggy!
Show Log: Ok
Show Log --> Statistics: Buggy!
SVN Update: Buggy!
SVN Commit: Ok
Check for Modifications: Buggy!
Revision Graph: Buggy!
Update To Revision: Buggy!
Rename: Ok
Revert: Buggy!
Branch/Tag: Ok
Switch: Ok
Merge: Ok
Export: Ok, but behaves differently from other dialogs
Relocate: Ok
{Create,Apply} Patch Ok, but behaves different
Settings: Ok (all tabs), but the TSVN menu item is
missing three "..." dots.

> SVN Update
>
> 2. Right-clicking on an item should show also in bold the action which
> will be executed when double click. (Commit dialog does it).
>

2. Still an issue.

> 3. Right-click on any item should give me the option to show log of
> that item. I know you don't want to duplicate funcionality, but when
> the update is done after a week (holidays) with a lot of activity, if
> you want to track the changes on a specific file, you must navigate to
> that file in the Explorer, and a useful entry here would not harm you
> either.
>

3. Feature request. No comments.

> 4. When the update has finished, focus should be given to the "OK"
> button, and ENTER should click OK and thus, close the dialog. If I
> click an item and navigate throw them, ENTER should launch the default
> action for that item, and not close the dialog.
>

4. Still an issue, navigating to a update log line and pressing
<enter> closes the dialog.

> 5. When the update has finished, ESC should close the dialog, EXCEPT
> when some "problems" are found -- say conflict, obstruct, etc... In
> these cases a MsgBox with "Hey! There are conflicts... are you sure
> you want to close?" and ESC in this MsgBox should return you to the
> update dialog. This MsgBox won't be shown if you click on the OK
> button - only if you use ESC to close the update dialog. This way you
> won't miss an important update dialog by pressing ESC twice, but you
> can dismiss a "regular" update without problems -- and without mouse.
>

5. Somewhat fixed - ESC has been disabled in commit and update
dialogs. Not sure if intentional.

> 6. I have some problems with some colors, specially blue: I can't see
> them very well. I use my monitor with low bright and contrast, and for
> instance the blue used is quite dark. Maybe it could be changed to
> some lighter color?
>

6. Feature request. No comments.

> SVN Commit
>
> 7. In older versions - I can't recall when exactly, if I have a lot of
> unversioned files in a tree, if I checked an unversioned folder, it
> was selected and also all its children. Now when I checked an
> unversioned folder it is selected but only it. Is this the intended
> behaviour? What about some popup entries: "mark/unmark with children"?
>

7. Don't know what the intended behaviour is. Auto-selecting children
when choosing unversioned folders to commit might be reasonable.

> 8. There is no action for unversioned files. Maybe launching its
> standard editor? If so, then a bold popup entry "Open" should be
> append to its menu. If not, what about adding an entry called "Open"
> but not bold, so I can launch the file and remember its contents
> without having to navigate throu Explorer until I find it? Open exists
> for versioned files.
>

8. Seems very reasonable.

> 9. If I select one unversioned file, I get a popup menu called "Add To
> Ignore List". If I select two unversioned files using Ctrl or Shift,
> why can't I get them ignored at a time?
>

9. The Explorer dialog has this feature, so seems reasonable to make
the ignore feature in the Commit dialog resemble it. Or decide to
only have it in one place (which would be my first option).

> 10. If I select one versioned file, I get a popup menu called "Show
> differences as Uniffied Diff". If I select two versioned (modified)
> files, why can't I get a uniffied diff. If I can get it for a whole
> folder, shouldn't I be able to get it for some individual files?
>

10. Seems reasonable. The TSVN menu in Explorer allows this.
Generally there seems to be lots of menu items missing when multiple
items are selected in the commit dialog (perhaps update dialog also?).

> Explorer popup
>
> 11. The same as #9: if I right-click a modified file, I get "Create
> Patch". Why not if I right-click two modified files?
>

11. Feature request. No comments.

> 12. Blame is not useful if two versioned files are selected - it will
> only blame one of them. Either open as many blame files as files
> selected, or just don't show that entry in the explorer popup.
>

12. Still an issue.

> Config dialog
>
> 13. A minor issue: the text "Context Menu" in the "Look and Feel" tab
> could better say "Items I want to see in the top context menu". I know
> about the hint, but not everyone knows about that, and when I read
> "Context Menu" I always tend to think all the items I don't check
> there won't be ever shown.
>

13. Still an issue. The ticked items should be reversed.
Alternatively, the text should read Top Context Menu" or so. I'd
prefer reversing the ticked items.

> 14. Please add a way to disable the sounds introduced in TSVN 1.1.3!
> They are useful except when you're peacefully listening to Enya and
> suddenly a WRAAAACK appears right to your brain!
>

14. Already fixed. Use the Control Panel, Luke.

> Right-click - Subversion tab
>
> 15. I think there can be a little button next to the combo where
> tsvn:logtemplate and so on are. The button could say "What's this?" or
> just "?" and it could show a MsgBox with the hint of the property
> selected. Yes, I know there are hints if you put the mouse over the
> textarea below, but there are people that mainly uses the keyboard.
>

15. Still an issue. Agree with reasoning, disagree with solution.
IMHO the Subversion tab on the Properties sheet of a file should
respond to the F1 key just as the other TSVN dialogs does.

> 16. There is no hint for checkbox "recursive". It could tell you that
> some properties are not available for recursiveness (sp?)
>

16. That should be mentioned in the help page that should show up when
the user presses F1.

> 17. Last commit revision date and Property Status date are cut. In
> Spanish I see "15:20:33, sabado, 12 de marzo de 200" -- year
> incomplete. Not a big issue either.
>

17. Perhaps still an issue. Don't know if the field fills to the
right edge of the dialog. It should be fixed if it doesn't.

> Revision Graph
>
> 18. If you click "Cancel" when gathering information, Cancel button
> gets disabled but the process is still there for some seconds (about
> 15 in my tests) until a "User cancelled" MsgBox appears. Could it be
> cancelled quickly?
>

18. Still an issue. Not sure if this can be fixed easily.
Additionally, the current nightly produces visual artifacts (upper
right corner), and the "resize" grabber (lower right corner) is odd -
see screenshots.

> 19. Is there any way to launch this graph from Repository Browser? I
> cannot find it, and I think it could be useful instead of having to
> checkout a WC to launch it.
>

19. Feature request. No comments.

> 20. I recall there are some hot keys in this window, like Ctrl++. I
> think those keys should be listed under their menu entries in the main
> menu.
>

20. Already fixed.

> 21. A "Help" menu item should appear in the main menu of the window.
> Also a "File | Exit" as a File menu exists - These two are to make the
> window more Windows-like.
>

21. Still an issue.

> Export
>
> 22. I would like to have the "Export unversioned files too" checked by
> default. Maybe an entry in the options dialog.
>

22. Feature request. I disagree strongly.

> Config dialog (2)
>
> 23. Because of #22 and #14: You could add a new section "Advanced" to
> group up some assorted settings, say everything you can tweak via
> regedit, or things like #22 or #14. It could be a check-list in a
> scroll area, like IE's Tools - Settings - Advanced Settings (no need
> to put icons and so on) or Windows Explorer - Tools - Settings - View
> - Advanced settings. I know that it can be quite "risky" to expose
> some options to non-advanced users, but exposing "Show all hidden
> files and folders" and "Not show system protected files" are risky too
> but Microsoft put them there to be checked/unchecked. Remembering what
> the regedit option was is... unconfortable.
>

23. Feature request. No comments.

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