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Re: Minor enhancements, svp

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-12-10 10:50:52 CET

Fernando P. Nájera Cano wrote:

> I've just installed latest nightly (TortoiseSVN 1.3.0, Build 5110 - 32
> Bit) and these are some minor issues that are not really that
> important. I hope I'm not too late, as usually. In no particular
> order.

This time, you're not too late. There's still some time before the 1.3
release :)

> 1. Show Log now has an Actions column with icons. Documentation should
> be updated accordingly so you know what kind of icons are there and
> their meaning.

I leave that to Simon and Lübbe.

> 2. Show Log. I recall this was asked before, but I have to retry: is
> there any way to have the message in the first panel resized? Now it
> shows the first <n> characters then ..., and if you make the column
> wider, the message don't span. I know I can read the message in the
> second pane clicking in each line, but sometimes I want to take
> advantage of my 19" screen and look at them at once.

That's a problem of the list control. The string length of columns is
limited. I can maybe try to overcome this limitation, but it's a lot of
work and not sure to even work.

> 3. Commit window: I really liked the old-good combobox (I don't intend
> to discuss this, I agree too much has been said about this matter),
> but when I click on the new button I expect to minimize my clicks.
> Usually (say >50%) I used the combobox to select the first
> (very-last-typed) entry, so I'd expect that when the new dialog is
> shown, the first line is selected, so just pressing ENTER I can recall
> last message. Also, focus should be in the listbox, so I could use
> key-up and down to select message, then ENTER to append it to the
> message log.

The listbox now has the focus when the dialog is shown (rev 5119).

> 4. Commit window: open two commit windows (for the same or different
> wc, it doesn't matter). Type "A" in the first one, then "B" in the
> second one. Wait until the dialog is ready and then cancel the "A"
> then cancel "B". Open a new commit window and click in "Recent
> messages". Message "A" is lost. I have found this more than twice in
> my daily usage and it is frustrating.

Fixed in revision 5120.

> 5. Show log: It would be a great help for me and my teammates to be
> able to select revision range; sometimes we need to review what
> happened 1500 rev ago (we do a lot of commits a day). I attach a
> pbrushed screenshot of how it could be done - just an idea, no idea of
> the effort it could take to implement.

That will take some time to implement. Not sure if I can do it for the
1.3 release though...
http://tortoisesvn.berlios.de/issues/?do=details&id=198

> 6. Show log: open show log dialog, click and release the first entry.
> Then press shift and key-down three times. Result: you'll have the
> first 4 entries selected, but panels 2 and 3 are unchanged. If you
> click the first one and shift-click the 4rd, panel 2 is cleared and
> panel 3 shows a resume of changed files in that 4 revisiones.

Fixed in revision 5121.

> 7. tsvn:logfilelistenglish. Now that "Paste file names" is in the
> context menu, maybe this property is not useful anymore. I mean, if
> TSVN is not set in English, you could add two different entries "Paste
> file names in English" and "Paste file names in your language". This
> way user can choose what to use every time. Of course,
> tsvn:logfilelistenglish could be taken as "default option" (a tick in
> front of the menu item) or even "mandatory option" (if set, no choice
> is given and English is used).

I think two menu entries for (almost) the same isn't a good idea. Also,
project admins might want to force users to use english for the logs.

Stefan

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