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Re: git gtk+/GNOME gui application: gitg

From
Stefan Karpinski <stefan.karpinski@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2009, 19:43 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

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>
> Not yet another one, please!
>
> I'm sorry, but that was my first thought. I lost count of how many
> half-finished GUIs we have, using tcl/tk, gtk, qt, you-name-it-tk. I
> still don't see any which provide a consistent, "modern", stable GUI for
> viewing *and* committing, i.e. a replacement for gitk and git-gui.
>
> The latter two still seem to be the most feature rich choices, but they
> suffer somewhat from their implementation language. Just look at the git
> survey and you know why nobody wants to work on them.

For what it's worth, GitX (OS X only) does both history viewing and committing, and seems to be rapidly approaching the feature set of gitk and git-gui combined. Unfortunately, I seem to inevitably hate cross-platform GUI's---they never feel right or work slickly enough. Sad, but true.

If GitX and this newer project could share a lot of code base, then maybe their co-development would be accelerated and both would end up being slick, native, full-fledged GUIs for git.

Previous: Michael J GruberNext: Jesse van den Kieboom
Message 9 of 26 in “git gtk+/GNOME gui application: gitg”
  1. Jesse van den KieboomJan 31, 2009
  2. SZEDER GáborFeb 3, 2009
  3. 1/3 Fix "multi-character character constant" compile warningSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2009
  4. 2/3 Refactor loading xml UI filesSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2009
  5. 3/3 Try load UI xml files from the current working directorySZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2009
  6. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 14, 2009
  7. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 4, 2009
  8. Michael J GruberFeb 3, 2009
  9. Stefan KarpinskiFeb 3, 2009
  10. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 4, 2009
  11. Miles BaderFeb 4, 2009
  12. Jakub NarebskiFeb 3, 2009
  13. Felipe ContrerasFeb 4, 2009
  14. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 4, 2009
  15. Michael J GruberFeb 4, 2009
  16. Felipe ContrerasFeb 4, 2009
  17. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 4, 2009
  18. Felipe ContrerasFeb 4, 2009
  19. Michael J GruberFeb 4, 2009
  20. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 4, 2009
  21. Michael J GruberFeb 4, 2009
  22. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 4, 2009
  23. Miles BaderFeb 5, 2009
  24. Jesse van den KieboomFeb 5, 2009
  25. Miles BaderFeb 6, 2009
  26. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2009

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