From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:09:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit new "smart browsing" feature
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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