Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: monotone-viz 0.6

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:36PM -0500, graydon hoare wrote:
>  - perhaps the graph layout should happen left->right, not top->bottom.
>    most screens are wider than they are tall, and the effect is
>    magnified by taskbar, window decoration, menubar, toolbar, and
>    vertival window split; the net result is that the graph area is
>    about 3.5x as wide as it is tall on my monitor.

+1, this is a great idea.

>  - I mostly like the layout, but I feel there's still information
>    lacking. there's a lot the user might want to interact with "live",
>    w/o invoking specific menu commands. the style I was aiming for with
>    lattice was to have a tree view of the entire project (all the files
>    in the current manifest) in the lower left pane, with markers coding
>    whether each received an add, del, or patch, and a tabed set of views
>    in the lower right. the intended tabbed views were:
>      - certs/changelog, like your lower left view
>      - full contents of file selected in lower left pane
>      - diff of selected file against previous version

These sound like very useful things to be able to get at.  My only
caveat is that monotone-viz right now is very oriented at helping
you answer the question "what happened?".  Having to e.g. scroll
though a complete manifest looking for special icons would be much
more irritating for this than just having the little list of changed
files that we have now.  So my caveat is that I like this proposed
functionality, but since "what happened?" seems to be the most
important question for a VCS browser, I want to make sure that we
balance both needs...

-- Nathaniel

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