new Mac GUI front end

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag 22 Juli 2008 18:44:02 schrieb James Walker:
> Yes, I'm interested in feature requests.  However, since I'm not making
> money on this, a key question I'll be asking myself is "would that
> change be useful to me?".

Sure :) 

What I thought about is: 
- Prefs: "Auto fetch on open" 
- Auto commit -A (with date as message) + push on close. 

even simpler (and more powerful): auto command for all repos on open and on 
close/quit. 
=> cd DIR1; command; cd DIR2; command; ... 


As explanation: My setup

I installed Mercurial for my wife, and I want to enable her to keep her laptop 
and and desktop current all the time using my (24/7) computer as repository 
store. 

For that it would be most useful to auto-fetch and push so she doesn't have to 
worry about it (but with MacMercurial she'll see what happens). 

I setup the MacMercurial file in her Startup Apps (User prefs), so an "on open 
fetch" setting would enable me to make synchronizing automatic. 

I want to setup the same startup/shutdown chain on her GNU/Linux desktop, so 
these two will keep synchronized automatically (but having graphical output 
and tools will much simplify it for her to do common tasks on her OSX 
laptop). 

And maybe that chain would be interesting for others, too (maybe for you? :) )

Best wishes, 
Arne

PS: One more far fetched idea: a user interface which shows the main 
commands: "fetch", "commit" and "push -f" as big buttons to be beginning-user 
friendly. :) 

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