Re: RFE #876613

"kaczoroj" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.gui.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jens,

> While I agree that it shouldn't be in the "Status" column, I'd 
> still keep - at least optional - a "Type" column.

OK, why not. I want to avoid the "Type" as a name however not to 
confuse with the Type column in Windows Explorer which is related to 
the file's extention.

How about "Encoding" then? The idea comes from CVSNT manual page
(13.4 
Substitution modes):
http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/CvsChapter110

Relevant CVS manual page for comparison (12.4 Substitution modes):
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.10/cvs_12.html#SEC102

CVSNT nicely divides encoding from keyword substitution and provides 
more of each but it's still looking compatible with CVS ones so we
can easily take that into account. The "Encoding" column would 
explain the files as either "Text", "Binary" or "Unicode".

The keyword substitution would still be shown in the "Option" column 
just like it is now so we can have both the user-friendly and 
technically-correct information. Since the columns can be moved
around 
people can decide for themself which column they want to see more.

Not sure where to place the column initinally. It seems like it
should 
be either before or after the Option column as these two are related.

> Maybe for the sorting of the "State" column we should not do a 
> plain text comparison, but compare the 'internal' states as 
> opposed to comparing the display text, which should be localized.

Good idea, but it's not that easy to decide the priority... ;)

> (I'm not entirely sure that's what users would expect, though - 
> it really depends on how people use this column...)

In fact some users will expect just that - we should draw attention
to 
some particular states more than others. Two most important ones are 
surely "Unknown" and "Conflict". We can implement it with "priority 
sorting" and see if there are any complains or suggetions and then act 
appropriate.

I see the State column a little bit like Timestamp column in that 
respect. It makes more sense to sort by the meaning and not 
alphabetically.

Best Regards,
Jerzy




 

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