[Eric] a few eric4 usability issues

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Sonntag, 30. Januar 2011, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2011, 12:28:25 Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2011, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 27 January 2011, 19:20:17 Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > > > On Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > > > Hi Detlev,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I would like to discuss some usability aspects of eric4:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Check in: I tend to prefer checking in larger changes on the
> > > > > command line (to svn), since that gives me the hint, what files
> > > > > are checked in beforehand. Ideally, I would want to check the
> > > > > diff of some files' changes before proceeding. I'm dreaming of
> > > > > a check in facility, that offers an interface similar to "svn
> > > > > ci" in the shell, but with the possibility to check the diffs
> > > > > of certain files, or a full diff. You offer all of these
> > > > > functions within the version control context menu, but the
> > > > > workflow is pretty uncomfortable.
> > > > 
> > > > That would be a dialog like kdesvn commit dialog, right?
> > > 
> > > Yes, something similar, although that dialog suffers from its
> > > attempt to manage new files by default..
> > 
> > How about extending the "Status" dialog. It already has all the
> > functionality except the diff. I could move the context menu entries
> > to buttons and place them to the right of the list.
> 
> A few more notes:
>  * The column resizing seems not to work properly for me at least
>  * It would be nice to filter items based on their status

The filter function has been implemented for eric 4.5 and is available via the 
source repo. It will be part of the next snapshot release. This finishes the 
enhancements to the subversion status dialogs to be a more general commit 
dialog.

>  * An action to remove/restore missing items would be nice
> 

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de