From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:24:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add a checkbox to control the visibility of tags Message-ID: <7vwqvw3v3o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130102071701.GG20724@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> 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. Łukasz, what do you think?