Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 03:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20070803030101.GI20052@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <107BD473-E055-47D0-9720-9D878BDAB954@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

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> Maybe, this would be sufficient. I mentioned the pop-up explicitly
> because it wasn't obvious to me right away. The reason might be that
> my brain adjusted too much to the Mac I'm using. Right-clicking and
> pop-ups are rarely used on Macs as the only access point to essential
> features, such as selectively staging diff hunks. Typically an icon
> or menu entry guides you explicitly to every feature. Pop-ups are only
> used for 'optimized' access but never as the only access point.

Steffen, you seem to be more in-tune with the Mac UI standards than I am. Any suggestions on what I can do in git-gui to make this feature more obvious to users?

I myself use a Mac OS X based PowerBook as my primary development system, but I have to admit, I'm not the best GUI developer that has ever walked on this planet. Far far far from it. I get by, if that. The fact that git-gui is even usable by mortals is a minor miracle.

So I'd really love to do better. But frankly I'm at a loss here and just don't know what sort of change to make.

Side note: Someone recently asked me how to move individual files to the left side of the UI (to stage them). Apparently this person had been using git-gui for months by just clicking "Add Existing" (recently renamed to "Stage Changed"). It never occurred to the user to try clicking the file's individual icons. Or to select the files they were interested in and look for a menu option that might work on that selection.

-- 
Shawn.