Hi,
As I've read that a new release is near, I wanted to send this email.
Maybe some of these are already done in trunk. I don't mean all of
them to be done, I'm writting this as a reminder of
all-the-things-I-would-like-to-have.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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?
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"?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
16. There is no hint for checkbox "recursive". It could tell you that
some properties are not available for recursiveness (sp?)
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Export
22. I would like to have the "Export unversioned files too" checked by
default. Maybe an entry in the options dialog.
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.
Best regards,
Fernando Nájera
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Received on Tue Mar 22 21:13:45 2005