RE: TortoiseSVN on thedailywtf.com

Hi Folks,

I followed that thread on thedailywtf.com. There were two good suggestions
by people, that I'd like to forward to the list. I added the headlines.
Quoted text below:

1) Reverse the Order of warning and selection of new URL
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the Very Stupid Thing about the Tortoise dialog, though, is that it comes
after you've asked for a relocation and entered the new location of your
repository.

This means that if you pick the "wrong" choice then you're kinda fucked: if
you click Yes (as the implied question is "Do you want to relocate?" indeed)
the relocation starts immediately.

In fact, would they so much as swap the dialogs (first this one then asking
for the new location) the workflow would become much more interresting and
this message would actually be useful. They could swap it to a regular alert
message too, since you'd have the ability to pick whether you'll really
relocate or not right at the next dialog.

2) Use OK / Cancel instead of Yes / No
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If the dialog used OK/Cancel buttons, it'd be good as-is. It's as simple as
changing the options to the dialog box in Win32 to MB_OKCANCEL |
MB_ICONWARNING

And there's anonther one from thedailywtf.com:
---SNIP---
And TortoiseSVN is full of unhelpful things. It installs a start menu item,
that when clicked, snidely advises that you should access it via an entirely
different means to every other normal program installed on your machine. Of
course it could have done something helpful, perhaps bring up the Options
dialogue or something, but you know... that would require usability design.
---SNIP---

Of course this person didn't get the point, why the start menu item is
there, but he has got a point in telling us to do something meaningful. I'd
suggest to open the TortoiseSVN help file on a page that explains why there
is no TortoiseSVN executable running on the desktop instead of showing this
dialog.

I'd also vote for a TortoiseSVN Options entry in the start menu.

Cheers
- Lübbe

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