[Eric] a few eric4 usability issues

[Detlev Offenbach]

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.

Detlev
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