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Re: Revision graph - more comments

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:09:58 +0000

2009/2/9 Stefan Fuhrmann <stefanfuhrmann_at_alice-dsl.de>:
> Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I quite like the new selected node marking. The only place it doesn't
>> look right is on the HEAD node, where the marker goes outside the
>> outline. I just noticed that the same is true of the "Tags on copy
>> source" option. One solution is to change the square marker to a
>> triangle (pointing to the right for tags, pointing to the left for
>> selection). That will work for ellipses and rectangles
>
> I tried that but it didn't work out quite as well:
> First, the triangles suggest directions and users may be tempted
> to click them (and nothing will happen). Secondly, it does not
> solve the problem because the ellipses, for instance, can become
> almost circles when path information must be shown.
>
> This is what I did in r15298: Make the squares smaller by 1/8th
> and push them slightly further to the center. For 1-line nodes they
> are now always within or on the outline of the node but may still
> be shown entirely outside for many-line nodes.
>
> One could center the markers vertically to fix this problem.
> However, they would potentially overlay with path names.

What about using thick borders to indicate selection and a different
shape for HEAD (e.g. pentagon - rectangle with bottom edge pulled down
in the middle)?

>> A couple of tooltips are incorrect. "Remove deleted branches ..."
>> should be "Hide deleted branches ...", and the same for the next icon.
>
> Changed in 15299.

I see you have committed some work on colours too :-) I will try the
next nightly.

Simon

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