Making paper the default style?

[Dennis Brakhane]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Paul R <paul.r.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Matt> I don't know of any good reason for the former. For the latter,
> Matt> what changeset should we view or browse or download?
>
> I guess just like from `shortlog' view : the latest. Also, because
> `rev', `files' and all the snapshots views depends on currently
> visited revision, I'd like to see something mentionning to which
> revision the action will refer when clicking on the button in the
> menu.

I second that. Having "menu items" that depend on what's shown outside
of the menu with no indication whatsoever is bad usability.

Even I, as a mercurial user, got confused and only noticed through
looking at the status bar that it depends on the current changeset.
Now image a user that doesn't know mercurial or DVCS at all that get's
told to "just click zip" to download the current status as a zip. If
he is curious and clicks on one of the commit messages first, he will
download an outdated version without knowing or expecting it.