On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 19:15, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> void pointer wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com
>> <mailto:rcdailey_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Hans-Emil Skogh
>> <Hans-Emil.Skogh_at_tritech.se <mailto:Hans-Emil.Skogh_at_tritech.se>> wrote:
>>
>> I see that Stefan has implemented the selection feature in the
>> latest nightly.
>>
>> Everything is much clearer now, and its a nice feature!
>>
>> However, I do get slightly confused that all choices are
>> clickable all the time. For exemple: I have deselcted "Show
>> unversioned files". Then I click on "Check: Unversioned". This
>> leads to all visible files being unchecked, but leaves me with
>> an uncertain feeling: What did just happen? Are the unversioned
>> files selected, but not shown? (No, they are not selected, as
>> far as I can see. But it's still not clear.)
>>
>> I would suggest to gray out the links that does would have the
>> same effected as clicking "Check: None". That is, in my example
>> above, "Check: Unversioned" would be grayed out, since there are
>> no unversioned files shown.
>>
>>
>> So if there are no Modified files shown, does that mean the
>> "Modified" selection pattern should be grayed out? The same applies
>> to "Added" or "Deleted" (If those exist).
>>
>> The point is, this feature is not designed to be dynamic, at least
>> as far as GMail is concerned. In GMail, the option to select all
>> Unread items is still there even if there are no unread items in
>> your view. The option does exactly what it says it does... it will
>> select all Unversioned files, and "none" is considered "all" if
>> there are no unversioned files shown.
>>
>> I think the feature is perfect as-is and graying the options out
>> would only confuse the feature (and the user) and make it less
>> intuitive.
>>
>>
>> I just tried out this feature and I absolutely LOVE it. I have one small
>> suggestion for improvement, however. If you could make the links blue
>> instead of black, this would make them stand out a little better. Black,
>> to me, means static text and at first they did not appear clickable.
>>
>> This isn't a big deal but if you're open to the suggestion I'd like to
>> see the color changed :)
>
> One problem with blue: There is no pre-defined color for links in
> Windows. And that means we would have to make this configurable, which
> means again adding another color option in the settings dialog.
Or maybe not: COLOR_HOTLIGHT seems to be what we need.
Stefan
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