Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit new "smart browsing" feature

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2007, 12:09 UTC
Message-ID: <200706041309.54279.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550706040420j22852e4btc41a88c79bffc49f@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 2007 June 04, Marco Costalba wrote:

> The tabbed widget is here to stay. I do not plan to remove it. But the
> tabbed widget is also slower then a well behaved scroll swicth or link
> clicking.

Ah - I've not explained myself clearly. What I mean is _another_ tab widget, instead of the scroll-to-switch. It can't possibly be slower, as it's the same amount of work for Qt... So it would look like this (excuse rubbish ASCII art):

 +-----------------------------+
 |                             |
 | <rev list here>             |
 |                             |
 |                             |
 +-----------------------------+
 | Log | Patch |               |
 +-----|       |---------------+
 | <diff goes here>            |
 |                             |
 +-----------------------------|

At the moment, you have a label in the top left of the text window that is mouse-clicked to change mode; I'm suggesting replacing that with a tab widget as above where you mouse click to change mode. It's no more operations, doesn't include a strange floating label and is a more standard and recognisable user interface.

If you still wanted up and down buttons, they could very easily go to the far right of the log|patch tabs, similar to the "close" button on the top tabs.

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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