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Re: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Repo-browser with split-pane

From: Simon Large <simon_at_skirridsystems.co.uk>
Date: 2006-12-18 10:46:43 CET
('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) On Sun Dec 17 13:50 , Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> sent:

>Udo Eberhardt wrote:
>
>> Two possible approaches I can think of:
>>
>> - If you want to compare two files, launch 2 browser instances. The
>> browser needs to support interaction between instances properly.
>> Probably, this is difficult to implement and a bit non-intuitive to use.
>
>Difficult and not very intuitive. Users won't even notice that they can
>use two repo browsers to get more commands than they have if they only
>use one. And features the users don't know that they exist are
>completely useless - we might as well just remove those features.
>
>Also, it would be difficult to check whether the second repobrowser is
>showing the same repository as the first one. And that's required for
>those commands to work.

How about adding a button/menu item to repo browser to start a second instance of
itself, passing a parameter to TProc which allows the two instances to
communicate with each other. That guarantees that they are looking at the same
repo and makes the feature visible.

>> - Support a 4 pane view: 2 folder panes on the left, 2 corresponding
>> file panes on the right. This view could be activated if required, e.g.
>> via a button. By default a 2 pane view is shown.
>
>That's what I was thinking of too. But I'm just not comfortable enough
>with that approach (yet?). There still are some things I don't like (4
>panes take a lot of space, it's not something users are familiar with, ...).

4-pane view is used in ftp clients. But I agree that it takes a lot of space, so
maybe two separate 2-pane views is better.

>I'll keep thinking about this - maybe I'll get some day an idea on how
>to do this properly.

Simon

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