Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Steve Borho]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Peter Arrenbrecht <
peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Thomas Burdick <thomas.burdick at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > TortoiseHg could help win some of the people I work with over if it had
> some
> > usability work done on it. I don't know if its the use of toolbox buttons
> > instead of form buttons, gtk+ (it looks plain wrong in windows...), or a
> > combination of both but no one I've talked to thought the UI was
> intuitive.
> > #1 complaint/issue was workflow - typically you go down a form, and the
> > buttons to operate things are at the top. I don't think the other
> tortoise's
> > do this
> > #2 complaint/issue - why aren't the commands the same for the tortoise
> menu
> > as hg help. what is synchronize and why don't I get things like pull,
> push,
> > update, revert, rollback etc as menu options instead of this silly
> business
> > with toolbox buttons. I try telling these guys "pull" and "push" and
>  they
> > ask me, where is push/pull in the menu.
>
> Well, part of the Summer of Code project was to do such changes.
> Sadly, they weren't accepted into TortoiseHg. The student had got rid
> of the close buttons, redone some dialogs to better follow established
> style, etc. And there was a Debian package, too. Maybe I wasn't
> insistent enough to help him get it into THg. Problem is, I'm not a
> core THg developer myself, so coaching this project was a little
> difficult. But this work still exists! Maybe it can still serve as a
> basis:
>
>  http://www.bitbucket.org/gpoo/soc/overview/


I rebased his patch set onto the tip of crew last night.  Sadly I neglected
to push them anywhere.
I intended to at least e-mail them back to him.

--
Steve
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