Re: TortoiseOverlay icon prio (Was: Re: Not all overlays appear on Windows 7 with TSVN 1.6.7+)

On 17.03.2010 08:17, Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
> > I'm currently thinking of creating a patch for TortoiseOverlays, that
> > iterates through registry Software\TortoiseOverlays, counting only the
> > actually registered handlers there and use the actual number of handlers
> > in the max slot calculation.
> A suggestion: Maybe each installed client could add its prefered overlay
> priority to the registry. Then TortoiseOverlays could calculate what
> icons that should go first for any given combination of installed
> clients on a machine.
[snip]

Very bad solution. Because it is too complicated to explain to a user.
Which means we'll spend a lot of time dealing with problem reports from
users about the overlay icons.
If it's not fixed which overlays get dropped first, we'll spend a lot of
time first figuring out what clients the user has installed and which
versions of those clients.

How about this 'drop order':

locked : files that are locked are also shown in the commit dialog, so
users don't really need to see that they still have a lock on a file
with an overlay.

ignored : not really necessary. Items that are not ignored show up in
the commit dialog too (if configured that way), and together with the
'unversioned' overlay the 'ignored' is redundant (the opposite).

readonly/needs-lock : who opens the files to edit from explorer anyway

unversioned

Stefan

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