On 23.02.2010 23:35, Simon Large wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The "some of my overlays are missing" problem has been around since
> the beginning, but it seems to be getting worse now with more programs
> making use of overlays. To compound the problem it seems that the
> overlays are picked up in install order, so if you upgrade TSVN the
> overlays can disappear for no apparent reason.
>
> Using regedit as a diagnostic is OK, as long as you know where to look
> (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers)
> and how to interpret the results. But how difficult would it be to add
> a diagnostics dialog called from the Settings->overlays which shows
> the content of that key in some form so that users can see why the
> overlays are oversubscribed without calling the helpline? A Go/No-Go
> marker next to each of the TSVN overlays to show whether that overlay
> can be used would also help.
>
> An enhancement to this would be to add a checkbox beside each overlay
> to allow it to be disabled (maybe by prefixing the key name with
> "Disabled-" or something like that).
If such a diagnostic tool could be bundled with TortoiseHg, this might
be very nice.
Wet dream: somehow add it to the TortoiseOverlays merge module, so we
(=the TortoiseHg project folks) could soak it up into our msi installer.
Might be useful for other Tortoise* projects as well.
(Note: TortoiseHg uses and installs the TortoiseOverlays merge modules
as provided by the TortoiseSVN project).
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Received on 2010-02-24 14:56:59 CET