Re: Re: Graph Display

Am 27.07.2004 um 15:24 schrieb kaczoroj:

> Jens,
>
>> I think Claus' original idea of putting *some* of the additional
>> information into the existing graph view (maybe as a user option)
>> is actually pretty good and does a good deal of what's currently
>> missing in graph view.
>
> The problem with putting in more information into the graph view is
> that it would take much more space. So you need an option to disable
> some of it.
>
> Another way to get more information is to just get more information in
> a view that's capable of it - tree or list control.
>
> Both ways have it's good and bad sides - I am just throwing an ideas
> in ;)

Yes, I agree - I wouldn't want _all_ information in the graph view 
either. I'm not even sure I want the additional info there all the 
time, so an option would be the best.
However, usually, when I'm looking at the graph view, I need more info 
than what's there, e.g. which was the last version I committed, some 
specific comment, etc.
Walking the list and clicking each item, look at the console, etc. is 
tedious - here the "compressed" info Claus suggested (i.e. user name, 
date + first few characters of comment) would allow to find relevant 
revisions at a glance.

I agree that the same would be possible using a tree view, but tree 
views are much harder to grasp in overview - at least for the timeline 
information displayed in our graph view.

Ideally, we'd provide

(a) an option to display _some_ info 'inline' in the graph view,
(b) optional tool-tips that display all the information for the 
revision under the mouse, and
(c) an alternative tree-style view, with columns for each piece of 
information if I need everything

</jum>



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