From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:08:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add a checkbox to control the visibility of tags Message-ID: <7v623f4inj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <50E3E9C2.5040901@poczta.fm> Lukasz Stelmach writes: > W dniu 02.01.2013 08:24, Junio C Hamano pisze: >> Paul Mackerras writes: >> >>> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 06:16:25PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>> Łukasz Stelmach 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 >>>>> --- >>>> ... >>> 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.