[Eric] a few eric4 usability issues

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Sun Jan 30 12:10:13 GMT 2011


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

Pete

python: 2.6
sip: 4.12
qt4: 4.6.3
pyqt4: 4.8.2



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