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Re: [PATCH] gitk: add a checkbox to control the visibility of tags

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2013, 17:08 UTC
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Lukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm> writes:
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> W dniu 02.01.2013 08:24, Junio C Hamano pisze:
>> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 06:16:25PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>> Łukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Enable hiding of tags displayed in the tree as yellow labels.
>>>>> If a repository is used together with a system like Gerrit
>>>>> there may be quite a lot of tags used to control building
>>>>> and there may be hardly any place left for commit subjects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm>
>>>>> ---
>>>> ... 
>>> If the concern is the amount of screen real-estate that the tags take
>>> up when there are many of them (which is a reasonable concern), I'd
>>> rather just put a single tag icon with "tags..." inside it and arrange
>>> to list all the tags in the diff display pane when the user clicks on
>>> it.  I think that would be better than not showing the tags at all.
>> 
>> Yeah, sounds very sensible.  Thanks.
>
> I am afraid I don't really understand why tags should be listed in the
> diff pane only after clicking the "tags" tag (if this is what Junio has
> suggested)? How about just putting there another line saying: Tags, next
> to Parent and Chindren and all the stuff?
>
> If something should happen upon user interaction with the tag label a
> toolpit would be a better choince FWIW.

If you meant tooltip that shows extra information in a pop-up when the user hovers the pointer, I think that would be a workable solution, too, and probably is a better one, compared to showing it in another pane that may or may not be selected.

Previous: Lukasz Stelmach
Message 18 of 18 in “gitk: add a checkbox to control the visibility of tags”
  1. gitk: add a checkbox to control the visibility of tagsŁukasz Stelmach, Nov 30, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2012
  3. Lukasz StelmachDec 2, 2012
  4. gitk: read and write a repository specific configuration fileŁukasz Stelmach, Dec 2, 2012
  5. Stefan HallerDec 3, 2012
  6. Lukasz StelmachDec 4, 2012
  7. gitk: read and write a repository specific configuration fileŁukasz Stelmach, Dec 5, 2012
  8. Marc BranchaudDec 5, 2012
  9. gitk: read and write a repository specific configuration fileŁukasz Stelmach, Dec 8, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2012
  11. Paul MackerrasDec 9, 2012
  12. Lukasz StelmachDec 9, 2012
  13. Lukasz StelmachDec 9, 2012
  14. Felipe ContrerasDec 2, 2012
  15. Paul MackerrasJan 2, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2013
  17. Lukasz StelmachJan 2, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2013

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