On 9/8/07, Vidar Hasfjord <hasfjord@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for great development tools!
>
> In the course of managing many branches I've had to do a lot of merging and
> conflict resolution lately. While TurtoiseMerge is excellent for this
> (kudos!), I find its default colours a little messy. Unfortunately all
> colours are not configurable. So here are some suggestions for improvement:
>
> 1. TurtoiseMerge now uses some colour variations that are not configurable.
> Make all colour use configurable.
>
> 2. Use simpler and more readable default colours based on global
> understanding of green, yellow and red as signalling colours (ok, warning,
> stop/danger):
>
> - Use the same colours in all three panes. This is less confusing.
>
> - All the colours should be pale. This is more easily readable with black
> text. Dark colours are also easily confused with selected lines.
>
> - Use a pale green background for both added and deleted lines. Deleted
> lines are clearly distinguishable by the strikeout font.
>
> - Use a pale red background for conflicted lines in all three panes.
>
> - Use a pale yellow background for resolved lines in all three panes.
>
> - Use a faint blue-ish white for empty lines. These are usually not
> significant to the merge/conflict resolution (the user can change it for in
> those rare cases it is significant).
>
> - Use a patterned background (e.g. a cross-hatch or, a little more fancy,
> italic question marks) for unresolved lines in the bottom pane, and don't
> put any text on these lines. Any text message may be confused with actual
> text in the file.
>
Hi Vidar,
It would nice if you provide screenshot of TortoiseMerge with proposed
colors. So everybody could compare it with current color scheme.
--
Ivan Zhakov
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Received on Sun Sep 9 09:38:14 2007